A true life adventure that is steeped in Middle East history. The pregnant author and her family become trapped in Iran during their Civil War. Khomeini takes down the Shah. Sharp shooters take aim at the American School. Stores run out of meat and milk. Buildings exist one day and are bombed the next day. As the only American in a private Iranian hospital, the author gives birth to her daughter on the high holy day of Azar Ashura. Birth, death, comedy, amidst real life drama that ends in evacuation and smuggling their newborn daughter out of Tehran.