“Choice; this challenge and harsh, difficult test, is what united the heroines of the five stories in this book. It’s as if all the hardships and difficulties these women faced in life were not enough, but at crucial moments, each of them had to face the necessity of choosing between hardships, between rebellion and calm, between life and death… Choice, with all its torment and hardship, was their fate in a life they thought would be easy and smooth, only to reveal to them in moments of weakness and breakage the need to open new chapters and close others, to walk new paths with the hardship of discovering the unknown and dealing with it, and to abandon familiar roads that were covered with the illusion of fragile reassurance and its pain…

What did “Hayat” encounter? What did “Zahra” live through? What was forced upon “Fitna”? What oppressed “Mahja”? How did “Manawra” shape her fate? And why did “Samihah” settle for her destiny?! Many questions chase us through the five stories and their heroines, so we understand and realize how difficult and exhausting each choice was on their journeys and how each paid its price!

These are stories of women, stories of life, stories of all of us.”