In many countries, women have little value and the value they have is owned by men. Those women are—by rule of law and custom—uneducated and subject to brutality and torture.

S.E.W, the secret SOCIETY FOR EMIGRANT WOMEN, is a rescue operation for women much like the Underground Railroad. The money for S.E.W. comes from a Swedish nobleman. S.E.W.'s enemy, the Chief Constable of Iran, has put a death decree on the baron. To keep the baron safe, the head of S.E.W. declares him dead.

With women waiting in the rescue pipeline, news comes that the government has decreed the baron’s estate goes, not to his son, but to a woman who the government declares is the baron's real wife! The accounts are frozen. Yet, the baron must remain "deceased."

Assassination plots are devised to stop S.E.W. Agents are compromised, and women may die. This is a story of intrigue, suspense, mortal danger and a disturbing look at women trapped in cruel and repressive social structures.