A Step Into The Darkness

An entire village in northern Iraq is wiped out when misinformed and panicked American soldiers stage a night-time raid there. Cennet, a young Turkmen girl is the only survivor of the raid, has no choice but to set out for Kirkuk in search of her older brother Azim. When she reaches Kirkuk she learns that Azim has been badly hurt in a bomb blast and taken to Turkey for treatment. Desperate to track him down, Cennet sets off on an arduous journey, her sense of resolve strengthened by blind fury. She meets the members of a radical Islamist organization who help her reach Istanbul, where she soon loses all hope that her brother is still alive and finds herself caught in the clutches of a charismatic religious figure who views her as an expendable instrument with which to carry out his devastating plan.