A dramatic court case from 1996 that ended with an acquittal and which fundamentally changed the situation for women in Ethiopia.
The tradition of telefa, the abduction of young girls into marriage, was still common throughout Ethiopia in the 1990s. Fourteen-year-old Hirut is kidnapped on her way home from school one day, but she manages to escape. Now she’s on trial for the murder of her abductor. Women’s rights campaigner and lawyer Meaza Ashenafi does everything in her power to save Hirut’s life and against all odds wins the case.