Die Schattenjäger – Les fantômes

Hamid (Adam Bessa) has fled Syria and hopes to be granted asylum in France. As a member of the secret Yaqaza cell, he belongs to an underground network that tracks down fugitive war criminals of the Syrian regime and hands them over to justice. At university, he believes he recognises his former torturer Harfaz (Tawfeek Barhom), who is notorious as ‘The Chemist’, in a fellow student. Since he can only identify him by his voice and smell, he has nothing left but his intuition. But as he tries to uncover the truth, the boundaries between memory and present, justice and vigilante justice become blurred.

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