Escape from Raqqa
DramaThrillerhusband wife relationshipparis, francebased on true storyreligious fundamentalismistanbul, turkeyisis (daesh)syrian civil warraqqa, syria
A tense, character-driven thriller about a woman's disillusionment with extremism and her husband's desperate mission to rescue his family from ISIS-controlled territory.
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.
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