Kazem Ala

After enduring fourteen months of imprisonment and torture by the Shah's regime, Iranian engineering student Kazem Ala flees to Houston, where he marries an American woman and resumes his studies. But Ala remains a man without a country: during the hostage crisis, his impassioned criticisms of American foreign policy and the repressive Ayatollah government alienate him from both his adopted and native lands. (rossmcelwee.com)