What if your freedom was stolen from you? What if the life you knew was snatched away in a moment, and paradise suddenly became hell? How do you know what you could survive? And how do you rebuild your life on the other side?

After investing 10 years and millions of dollars in building a decadent Asian empire of resorts, hotels and timeshare properties, Rell’s entire world was crushed one fateful morning beneath the jackbooted feet of the Thai police. Shackled and stripped of everything but his spirit, he was thrown through the gates of Hell into the depths of the Thai injustice system.

What followed was a year of unspeakable horror: caged in a disease-ridden cell for 15 hours a day, waking up next to dead men, starving to death himself with each passing day. Faced with everybody’s worst nightmare, he looked deep within to illuminate his life lessons, finding true freedom in captivity and enduring the unendurable.