 Meir Zarchi (qv) said that he was inspired to do the film after  helping a young woman who had been raped in New York. He tells of  how a friend of his and his daughter were driving by a park when  they witnessed a young woman crawling out of the bushes bloodied and  naked (he later found out the girl was taking a common shortcut to  meet with her boyfriend when she was attacked). They took the girl  with them, took his daughter back home, and talked with the friend  on whether they should take her to the hospital or to the police.  They decided to take her to the police first, which they soon  afterwards discovered was a mistake 