Rookie FBI agent Russell Boyd and Arabic interpreter Nawar Abboud have reasons for avoiding the Middle East, but that’s exactly where they’re going. A teenage girl has fallen to her death from a swank hotel in Seattle, leaving behind nothing to identify her except a pair of earrings. The jewelry connects her to Za’atari Camp, a city of Syrian refugees in the northern desert of Jordan. Boyd and Abboud’s assignment: Find out how this unknown and trafficked girl got from there to here.
While Boyd and Abboud search for clues in Za’atari, at another part of the camp fourteen-year-old Lely Khayat receives a visitor who promises a better life in America. Adventurous and artistic, Lely cannot identify with the words orphan and refugee, but each day she wakes up as a guest in another family’s shelter. She decides to go.
The chase is on—Boyd and Abboud pursue murderous traffickers to rescue a girl who has no idea what will be expected of her in America.
Rookie FBI agent Russell Boyd and Arabic interpreter Nawar Abboud have reasons for avoiding the Middle East, but that’s exactly where they’re going. A teenage girl has fallen to her death from a swank hotel in Seattle, leaving behind nothing to identify her except a pair of earrings. The jewelry connects her to Za’atari Camp, a city of Syrian refugees in the northern desert of Jordan. Boyd and Abboud’s assignment: Find out how this unknown and trafficked girl got from there to here.
While Boyd and Abboud search for clues in Za’atari, at another part of the camp fourteen-year-old Lely Khayat receives a visitor who promises a better life in America. Adventurous and artistic, Lely cannot identify with the words orphan and refugee, but each day she wakes up as a guest in another family’s shelter. She decides to go.
The chase is on—Boyd and Abboud pursue murderous traffickers to rescue a girl who has no idea what will be expected of her in America.