Ebadi opens her 2016 memoir and narrative with a story about her work as a human rights lawyer in the early 2000s defending children and teens who are imprisoned and (sometimes) executed by the state for "crimes" they may or may not have committed. Opening the book with this gravitas sets the tone - serious, life-altering, and dangerous work. She briefly retraces the shifts and changes in her own career after the 1979 Revolution / overthrow of the Shah, and the shift to sharia law in her country. As a woman, she was no longer allowed to hold court as a judge, but continues her work as a pro bono attorney fighting for women and children's rights.

Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, making her the first Muslim woman and first Iranian to receive this honor.

She describes the increased state surveillance after the Nobel Prize ceremony, the threats to her and her family, and further resistance and activism against the administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the mid/late 2000s.

Told in chapter narratives/essays, this book offers insight into Iranian politics, human rights abuses, as well as the role of women in Iranian society. Ebadi continues this work in exile.