Ghahramani, Zarah

As a twenty-year-old, Iranian student Zarah Ghahramani, was taken off a Tehran street and put in Evin prison for an infraction. The experience transforms her from a naive Persian girl into a courageous and determined woman.

Zarah Ghahramani recollects her childhood in Iran, being raised by a family who encouraged her creativity in a country were women were oppressed; and recalls her experiences in Evin Prison, a jail in Tehran where she was subjected to physical and psychological torture for showing her hair in public.