A Russian captive and her Egyptian driver: two prisoners of the same machine, speeding toward freedom or death.
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
Acting
Rinis and Badreya's wordless moments hit harder than the dialogue.
Direction
Vizinberg shoots the American highway as purgatory itself.
Director
Yan Vizinberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot guerrilla-style across actual U.S. border states with minimal budget, using real locations to ground its exploitation thriller in documentary-like unease.
Sayed Badreya, an Egyptian-American actor often typecast as terrorists, deliberately took this role to subvert Hollywood's Arab villain archetype through complex moral arc.
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