In the world they left behind, women were second-class citizens, subservient to men by law and custom.

In the world they left behind, women were second-class citizens, subservient to men by law and custom. Some feared for their lives. Others were searching for new opportunities. The episode features the Guatemalan victim of spousal abuse who's seeking political asylum; an Italian woman who fled a brutal husband in 1887; and an Iranian woman and her two daughters, whose story of why and how they left Iran is a chilling tale of what it takes to break free.