their stories are intertwined. amanda my head is pulled back, and there was a serrated knife. it and her mother, lorinda stewart. did you keep it together? i did. i had to be strong for her. driven by strength, courage, and endurance, these women would not only survive this ordeal, but their determination in a completely new chapter of their story would ultimately lead them to triumph over one of the men who had terrorized them so brutally, and it would take an elaborate international sting. it sound like something out of a movie. it does. we refer to the operation as the hail mary play. but before all of that, this story begins in a small town in western canada where a young woman named amanda lindout yearned for a world beyond her hometown.