you sit there for a half an hour and watch a story and believe it all and then watch another half an hour of the same story utterly unraveling . and then put back together again . brilliant . one of the most exciting feature film at the san francisco international film festival be a documentary . i do not know if other than andrew jarecki capture the friedman there have ever be anything like anna broinowski forbidden lie $ . it feature and expose and defends and reveals and and question everything about norma khouri and author of honor lose and the acclaimed and lambasted 2001 bestseller about honor killing in jordan . what be quite incredible and what make the film so exceptional be that this exposure of khouri be make with khouri full participation . for the initial portion of the film and khouri present her story about the suppose honor killing of a friend of hers in amman and the story of the book . she sound completely believable and convincing . then her story be take apart and expose and by eminently believable and convincing people and such a woman right activist in jordan and investigative reporter there and in australia and where khouri live for a while . khouri come back and deny the accusation and take a successful lie detector test in the process . there come another segment of devastate exposure not to be specify here because that would lessen the shock value . and then khouri come back and face the accusation ( not all and but the essential one in the matter of the book ) . and the houdini act continue and with round after round in this heavy weight and seesaw prize fight and surprise after surprise and there be no happy end in the sense of resolution . brilliant .