This book, translated into many languages, is the confession of a woman with a unique and tragic fate. At seventeen, for a “crime against family honor,” she was sentenced to death by those closest to her. About her miraculous salvation, about the people who came to her aid, this is a documentary story that has become a world bestseller.

Somewhere on the opposite bank of the Jordan River from Israel there is a Palestinian village in which men are allowed everything, and for women - nothing. A woman there is valued much lower than a ram or a cow. Mothers, sisters, daughters and wives work there from dawn to dusk, like slaves, and in return they receive only beatings and abuse. If there are too many daughters in a family, female babies are simply strangled soon after birth. A girl who looked at a man or exchanged a few phrases with him is called a slut. The family is obliged to kill her, otherwise the public opinion of the entire village will rise against them. It was in such a village that a girl named Suad grew up. The only joyful event in the life of a Palestinian villager is a wedding. According to local customs, married women gain relative freedom - they can put on makeup and go to the store. And since Suad did not have the right to marry before her older sister, the girl took a desperate step - she began secretly dating the man who had wooed her. When Suad became pregnant, her boyfriend ran away, and her parents sentenced her to death. Suad’s story is real - this is what the publishers and activists of the Swiss humanitarian foundation Emergence say, whose efforts managed to save from death not only Suad, who was doused with gasoline by her relatives and set on fire, but also her unborn son. Suad's face was practically undamaged, but she is photographed wearing a mask, because she fears that her relatives will see her alive and want to kill her a second time - such cases are known; champions of misogynistic morality found their victims even in Europe. Memoirs of a rescued Eastern woman about her childhood and youth in a remote Muslim province they can deprive a civilized girl, spoiled by equal rights, of sleep and appetite. The life that Suad describes is, of course, not life, but a living hell. Moreover, the worst thing is that, as the heroine testifies, local women do not even think of protesting, at least until their own family tries to kill them. Nevertheless, somewhere in the back of their minds there is a vague discomfort: somehow everything is too hopelessly black, and somehow too ideologically beneficial to all those who are against Muslims. Do not rush to make quick and unambiguous conclusions - be that as it may, we, the readers, do not know what really happened there, and we judge the situation from the words of other people. And remember: domestic violence against women is a reality not only in Palestine.