"When I came to my senses, I was at this man's, in the bedroom. Standing in a corner of the room, I hugged tightly the white chador I was decked out in before leading me into this room. house. I tried not to make any noise, hoping he wouldn't notice my presence. In this absolute silence, tears flowed down to my chest. My God, how to understand these customs? One day my family wanted to kill me on the pretext that I had exchanged a few words with a man whom I had known for two years, about whom I knew a lot of things, whom I loved and whom I was ready to follow to the end of the world, and the next day she claimed to m 'forcing them to sleep in the same bed as a stranger about whom I knew nothing and who only inspired me with terror. "
 Sixteen-year-old Massoumeh has only one desire: to continue his studies. A dream accessible to girls since the shah modernized Iran. But when her brothers find out that she is having a very innocent love affair with a neighbor, they marry her to a man she does not know and has never even seen. At first desperate, Massoumeh rebels and takes charge of his existence.
 This novel about a determined woman who faces her destiny in a society in upheaval has been successful around the world.