The Price of Honor

UPDATE: Yaser Said was finally caught in August 2020 and arrested, along with family members, for the murders of his daughters Amina and Sarah. He is awaiting trial.

The Price of Honor is an award-winning documentary about the murders of Amina and Sarah Said, teenage sisters from Lewisville, Texas, who were killed in a premeditated “honor killing” in 2008. The film chronicles the lives of the sisters and the path to their eventual murders by their own father, Yaser Said, who fled the crime scene and remained at large until August 2020 when he was captured just miles outside of the area.

This sensitive and emotionally-told film is the only with exclusive access to the family members within this horrific crime. It reveals new details and uncovers evidence about the case that has never before been made public, including a previous murder committed by Yaser, his abuse of his daughters from a young age, and the ultimate sacrifice of Amina Said, who had a secret plan to protect the love of her life; her young boyfriend who features in some of the most compelling interviews in the documentary. Her voice, through home video, emails, letters and diary entries, becomes a powerful thread throughout the film depicting the girls’ struggle and makes us reconsider much of what was assumed about this case. Despite the tragedy, viewers learn of an incredible love story that still has life after death.

This film has captured hearts and minds worldwide as the shocking dedication of Yaser to his faith cost these young women everything. With his brothers’ involvement, a web was spun to stop the girls from growing up in modern America, forever. Their mother, Tissie, plays a very strange and suspicious part in the story where viewers are left to judge for themselves whether American Tissie was complicit in the plan, or just idle as she continued to put the girls in harm’s way.