On August 23, 2008, Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped by Hizbul Islam insurgents outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers' demand was simple: pay millions or Amanda would be killed. For the next 460 days, Amanda's mother, Lorinda Stewart, did everything in her power to get her daughter back alive. A brave, small-town mother with no experience in hostage negotiations, Lorinda was called upon by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to be the lead communicator with "Adam"- the Somali man who identified himself as the English-speaking negotiator for Amanda's kidnappers. In a secret "war room" in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Lorinda joined forces with federal officers and began answering calls from Adam, establishing a fragile rapport of trust with the man who held her daughter's fate in his hands. She learned how to demand POLs (proofs of life) from the kidnappers and even how to react to "bad calls" - getting through them despite having to listen to her daughter's desperate cries for help and fearing Amanda was being abused and tortured. What was supposed to be a short negotiation stretched on, and weeks became months. Lorinda never gave up hope, even when the phone calls became more traumatic. Faced with the terrible possibility of her daughter's death, Lorinda decided to bring in a private security company and raise money from donors to support the cause of bringing Amanda home. But would it be enough? The story of one mother's heroic perseverance in the face of despair, and of the hope and healing to be found beyond trauma. On November 25, 2009, Amanda Lindhout was released following a ransom payment.