Do They Hear You When You Cry

The chronicle of one extraordinary young woman’s fight for freedom: Fauziya Kassindja, who fled her African homeland to escape female genital mutilation—only to be locked up in American prisons for 16 months.

Ultimately she became the first woman who received asylum in the U.S. on the basis of female genital mutilation, in 1996. Fauziya was born in Togo and escaped to Lagos, then Germany, before coming to America.