Camille Phillips, a young American woman, travels to India searching for enlightenment and liberation. While riding on a rural road with a local man, she is captured by a gang of criminals led by a local politician and forced into sexual and manual slavery. Eventually she escapes and manages to find the home of a learned guru, who teaches her empowerment rituals to enable her to accept what has happened to her and teach others who need help dealing with similar experiences.—David Bassler