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At 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and had to leave behind her family in Pakistan to move to Canada. Her new husband and his family promised that the marriage and the move would be a fulfillment of her dream, not a betrayal of it. But as the walls of their home slowly became a prison, Samra realized the promises were empty ones.

1995 kommt Hussein Akkouche als viertes von sechs Kindern einer Familie mit libanesischen Wurzeln in einer kalten, verschneiten Winternacht zur Welt. Aufgewachsen in den grauen Straßen von Berlin-Lichterfelde, muss er sich schon früh unter Älteren behaupten und trifft mit 13 Jahren eine...