After years of emotional and physical abuse by her Israeli husband, Chaim Yarden, Patsy Heymans divorced him and took her three children back to her parents' home in Belgium to start a new life. Then Yarden kidnapped the children, concealing them within the extreme Hasidic sect to which he belonged. To get them back, Patsy embarked in a harrowing, six-and-a-half-year journey that took her fropm Europe to New York City, and into the heart of a strange, alien culture."