Salman Rushdie’s wife, Eliza Griffiths, documented his recovery after he was stabbed multiple times at a 2022 speaking engagement, fearing initially that he might die. Her footage forms the basis of Alex Gibney’s documentary *Knife*, which explores both the attack’s devastating aftermath and Rushdie’s decades-long experience living under threat after Iran’s 1989 fatwa.

Rushdie suffered severe injuries and now wears a black covering over his right eye, while Griffiths’ filming became a way for them to reclaim their identities as artists. The film combines intimate recovery footage with archive material showing violence and intimidation linked to the fatwa, including deaths, riots, attacks on translators and threats against Rushdie and those associated with *The Satanic Verses*.