Summary: Canadian journalist Sally Armstrong follows the lives of four women and one young girl as they pursue their dream of liberation after the ousting of the hated Taliban. It begins in the spring of 2002, with the remarkable Dr. Sima Samar, a woman who thumbed her nose at the Taliban and risked death by keeping her schools for girls and health clinics for women open when they demanded she close them. As Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Womens Affairs in the new government, she takes us inside the corridors of power where shes walking a tightrope in her quest to free the women and girls of Afghanistan. We also meet Soghra, whose harrowing tale to survive is inspiring and shocking; Hamida, a gutsy school principal who is determined to lead her students to victory by way of jobs in every government office; and Camellah, the quintessential Afghan woman, who knows instinctively that the rules of her country make her a sex slave to her husband. And finally, Lima, a blameless young girl who has already lost her childhood to the war that ravished her village.