Basma Abseh is an obedient Yemeni mother haunted by a traumatic childhood experience. A child bride at 13, she's never been in love, nor felt the stirring of sensual desire. She's resigned to her daily routines. But all that changes at a Queens bus stop one stormy afternoon, when a red sports car pulls up driven by a handsome young stranger. Soon Basma is forced to make an almost impossible choice: her family's honor or her own Life.
When terror strikes one of her London 'safe' houses, activist Dr. Neelam Sethi seeks to expose the shocking brutality inflicted worldwide on women and girls by their families. But has she taken on more than she can handle?
A rescue gone wrong transforms beautiful Algerian journalist, Zafeera Hasni, into a hijab-wearing soldier carrying an AK-47, with a jaw-dropping mission. Is she a new action hero or just mad?
Set in present day cosmopolitan cities with their burgeoning immigrant populations and other international locales, UNBOWED weaves together three plotlines that illuminate the violent extremes some patriarchal cultures have gone to, to reinforce absolute power over women and girls, and the equally extreme, yet opposite paths these women embark on to change the game.
