This is the first and the second of three volumes entailing the memoirs of political activist Reza Yazdi in the period of political upheaval in Iran following the 1979 revolution, and the brutal suppression of political opposition groups by the new Islamic regime. Yazdi was arrested and spent a full year in an interrogation camp run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps before receiving a death sentence for his political beliefs, which was later reduced to a 20-year sentence of which he served 5 years in Vakil-Abad prison, in the northwestern city of Mashhad, Yazid’s hometown. Yazdi struggles with the disastrous end that came to leftist factions within Iran, marked by arrest and namely, the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988, to which he bore witness.