Two brothers chase a ghost through hell — and hell chases back.
Hassan and Mourad travel to Syria to search for their missing brother Yasin. As they try to follow Yasin’s trail through Jordan and Syria, Hassan and Mourad are involuntarily involved in the Syrian conflict. Will the brothers, despite the confrontation with the atrocities of the war, be brought closer together and the disintegrated family be reunited, or has the war wounded irreparable wounds?
Acting
Akkabi and Benmbarek's volatile chemistry carries every scene.
Direction
Smitsman blurs documentary grit with feverish subjectivity.
Director
Hanro Smitsman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of few Dutch films addressing European jihadi recruitment through family trauma rather than ideology alone.
The Jordan-Syria border crossing was filmed during actual refugee movements; production had to evacuate twice.
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