When does an innocent girl become a woman? Nadia found the answer when she was eighteen: when she was kidnapped, when the door was closed before her. When she could no longer stand by herself, no longer dream by herself.

The news was broadcast over Norway on the 3^rd October, 1997: Nadia, the daughter of Moroccan immigrants who had become Norwegian citizens, was forced to return to Morocco to be married in that country of the Maghreb in North Afr