wow . this take you into the heart of a different part of the world where freedom be not something that be take for grant . richard gere get infatuate with the wrong woman and and when he wake up and she be dead . at first and he doesn not seem to have a say so in his plea . he have to plea with his ( female ) lawyer to get her to change it . i be glad that our court system be not like theirs . richard gere decision to put himself back into the hand of his lawyer after he be safe at the embassy show that he be honorable and and thank god his lawyer can prove his innocence . the story be both move and touch .