Her story began like a fairytale. At the age of 21, Farah Diba married the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. Her coronation as empress of Iran was covered by the world's press and overnight she became an international celebrity. Her early years were marked by a loving marriage and the raising of four children, but they were signs of a division approaching. Twenty years later demonstrations and riots caused the Shah and his family to flee the country. An intimate view of a time of upheaval and a poweful human document revealing a nation's epic struggle.… (more)