Thordis Elva, the journalist, writer, public speaker and in 2015 tagged as Women Of The Year in Iceland. When Elva was 16 and her boyfriend from Australia Tom was 18, he raped her and their beautiful relationship of boyfriend-girlfriend turned into a horror story for Elva.

Tom raped her after a school dance. After the years has passed, today the two come together and spoke on Ted Talks about their situation.

Stated by Thordis, "My head had cleared up, but my body was still too weak to fight back, and the pain was blinding. I thought I'd been severed in two. In order to stay sane, I silently counted the seconds on my alarm clock. And ever since that night, I've known that there are 7,200 seconds in two hours."

"I have vague memories of the next day. The after effects of drinking, a certain hollowness that I tried to stifle. Nothing more. But I didn't show up at Thordis's door. It is important to now state that I didn't see my deed for what it was. To be honest, I repudiated the entire act in the days afterward and when I was committing it. I disavowed the truth by convincing myself it was sex and not rape. And this is a lie I've felt spine-bending guilt for," told by Tom.