Change Of Mind

After Zainab had heard his answer and turned to walk away, she heard him call her back. He thought about something and then immediately agreed upon taking Maya along with him and being her chaperone. Zainab couldn’t believe her luck. 

Goodbye

Zainab gave Maya’s hand into the man’s hand and told her to be obedient. She bid her goodbye and went to the other corner of the airport as she watched the plane take off. This could be her last goodbye to her only daughter. 

Lost

It was only after the plane had taken off that Zainab realized that she did not even ask the name of the person under whose supervision she had sent her daughter overseas. She was so tensed and occupied in her own thoughts about Maya’s health that she forgot about something so basic as well. 

Realization

“All of a sudden, the adrenaline kind of went away, and I realized, ‘Oh, my God, I just handed my only child at the time to a complete stranger,’” Sesay told the Huffington Post. Had she made the right decision or was she going to regret it for the rest of her life? 

The Journey

Maya, on the other hand, went away with the man. She sat in the plane and was going to be on an 8,941-miles-long journey with a stranger whom she had never even seen before. The cabin crew came to know that he had accepted to babysit the girl, and they helped him in his efforts to make the girl comfortable. But the man had other plans. 

Difficult Time

To the cabin crew, it seemed like Maya was having a difficult time during her flight back to the United States. She looked as if she was in the middle of chaos and was crying a lot. Everyone around her was trying to calm her down, but in vain. What had made Maya cry so much?