The story follows a French journalist named Mathilde (Emmanuelle Bercot) as she seeks the story of Kurd resistance at the front lines. She’s haunted by her own fresh tragedy - one that leaves her avoiding phone calls from home reminding her of loss and responsibility - so this war becomes the best distraction. And it isn’t long before she finds the perfect subject for her story in Bahar’s (Golshifteh Farahani) determined, confident soldier. Like the women she fights beside, Bahar is a former captive who watched as her husband and son were taken away before being sold as a sex slave. We therefore infer why she’d take up arms despite having been a lawyer with no military inclination, but the details of that trajectory will still devastate...
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