The Hague Convention was originally intended to protect children from abducting fathers. The reality is very different. This is one mother's harrowing experience of the inhumanity and injustice suffered by women and children who are innocent victims of this legislation. Detroit is living on the run with her son in the US, an outlaw, having escaped from her violent husband. She sent emails while living in a tent, from a truck, in a forest, while parked by a lake, telling her story. A FiLiA volunteer has read Detroit’s words as the risk to her is too great. (Transcript available on www.filia.org.uk)