Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's contested presidential elections for Newsweek magazine. He thought he'd be returning in just a few days to Paola his pregnant fiancee. Instead he was incarcerated under false charges of espionage in Evin a state prison notorious for its role in Iran's history of torture & oppression. Suffering regular beatings forced confessions & threats of execution Bahari draws strength from the similar experiences of his family in the past: his father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s & his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Exposing the contradictions at the heart of Ahmadinejad's paranoid regime this inspiring & often witty story of one family's courage in the face of repression is also a beautifully written portrait of modern Iran.