在美国撤军2021时,在执行一项营救任务时,一组传教士从阿富汗的一个村庄撤离,一支海豹突击队直升机被一群叛乱分子击落。海豹突击队的一名队长理查德·米尔科(约翰尼·斯特朗饰)从飞机残骸中被扔了出来,奇迹般地从飞机失事中幸存下来。米尔科继续搜寻传教士,但发现他们的车辆遭到伏击,这是唯一的幸存者:一名受伤的5岁儿童。米尔科现在必须通过敌对叛乱分子的挑战,引导孩子走向安全,并在残酷的阿富汗荒野中生存。
“For two years starting in 2020, this work has been forming along the edges of disquiet and premonition, in fragments and intensities, through wandering and not-staying. It has tried to find language for and ways across the bizarre upheavals of social and political values with the rise of fascism in India and a global pandemic. It has insisted on being amongst the things that keep from falling apart. Filmed in Delhi, these incomplete fictions are of the people, places, and protests that keep the language of hatred at bay and absorb the city’s grief and euphoria. In them are the continuous echoes of a violent and tenuous present. The false closures and tenuous associations in this video/essay compose a timeline of the city at an angle through the time of this work. There is a shadowy sense of a protagonist who un-dreams it all; a stranger, who it turns out, is no stranger at all.” Priya Sen