 It was on this trip to see his mother in Tehran that Anousheh's life would take a handbrake turn when he was bundled into a car by state police and interrogated as a suspected spy. It was all untrue, but that didn't help him. He faced years behind bars in the notorious Evin prison, home to the Islamic Republic's political prisoners. Anousheh's hope was kept alive through an act of mind, unbound by the walls that kept him.