Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
Acting
Swann Arlaud's panic feels dangerously real.
Direction
Hamon makes bureaucracy as scary as terrorists.
Director
Emmanuel Hamon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on actual exfiltration operations by a network of French volunteers, not official forces—most details remain classified.
Released months after the 2015 Paris attacks, it reopened wounds France hadn't finished processing. Some critics found it exploitative; survivors found it necessary.
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