Jacqueline Gillespie recounts her life, from her earliest days in a dysfunctional family to her part in the politically controversial and headline-making international drama of the kidnapping of her children. Jacqueline Gillespie married Prince Bahrin, firstborn grandson of the Sultan of Terengganu at the age of 17. She had met him when he was studying architecture at Melbourne University in 1980. At the age of 22 she escaped the life of torment her marriage and life in her Islamic home in Malaysia had become. In 1992 her husband kidnapped her children and her fight to secure their return continues.