In this moving documentary we follow Sengul, a Turkish woman, in her journey from Denmark back to Turkey where she confronts her father, who murdered her boyfriend eighteen years ago in an "honor killing."

In some societies, women are often looked upon as representatives of the family's honor. When women are suspected of extra-marital sexual relations, even if in the case of rape, they or their partners can be subjected to the cruelest forms of indignity and violence, often by their own fathers or brothers. Assuming an accused woman's guilt, male family members believe that they have no other means of undoing a perceived infringement of "honor" other than to kill the woman or her partner. What distinguishes honor killings from what US customs would see as crimes of passion is that some societies consider them inherently just. "Women are largely looked upon as bodies owned and protected by the husband, by the father, by the brother or even other relatives," said Salwa Bakr, a novelist who is Egypt's most prominent feminist writer.

Honor killing exists mostly in Muslim countries, such as those in the Middle East and Central Asia, even though Islam does not sanction the practice. The United Nations says such killings have also occurred in Britain, Norway, Italy, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela. At least one case has been reported in the US. A recent UNICEF survey found that in 1997, honor killings claimed the lives of as many as 400 women in Yemen, 52 in Egypt, and about 300 in just one province of Pakistan. Jordan reports an average of 25 such killings each year.