On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off a streetin Vienna by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she waslying on a cold cellar floor, rolled up in a blanket. When she emergedfrom captivity in 2006, having endured one of the longest abductions inrecent history, her childhood had gone. In 3,096 Days Natascha tells heramazing
story for the first time: her difficult childhood, what exactlyhappened on that fateful morning when she was on her way to school, herlong imprisonment in a five-square-metre dungeon, and the physical andmental abuse she suffered from her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil - whocommitted suicide by throwing himself under a train on the day she managedto make her escape. 3,096 Days is ultimately a story about the triumph ofthe human spirit. It describes how, in a situation of almost unbearablehopeless, she learned how to manipulate her captor. And how, againstinconceivable odds, she managed to escape with her spirit intact.