The Unlucky
Sara (Jeanne Goursaud), an ex-soldier, suffered from PTSD, and even though getting back to her regular life had been challenging, she continued to fight her thoughts for the sake of her son. Sara met…
The Unlucky
Sara (Jeanne Goursaud), an ex-soldier, suffered from PTSD, and even though getting back to her regular life had been challenging, she continued to fight her thoughts for the sake of her son. Sara met her husband, an American citizen, during her time in Afghanistan. But unfortunately, he lost his life in an ambush. Joshua (Rickson Guy Da Silva) grew up never knowing his father, and when life started to get suffocating in Germany, Sara decided to move to the United States. She was offered a well-paying security job there, and she had always wanted to show Joshua the country his father was from. She had her plans in place, and all she needed was the visa to finally move out of her country. As soon as she entered the US Consulate General, her life drastically changed. After Sara left her son for five minutes in the playroom at the US Consulate General, she discovered that Joshua had disappeared. She frantically searched for him but to no avail. The regional security officer, Eric Kynch (Dougray Scott), tried to establish that Sara was not in her right senses. He tried to gaslight her into thinking that she was alone when she came to the US Consulate General. The German police cannot help as they have no authority to enter the Consulate building. But Sara trusted her memory and refused to be manipulated by a man she barely knew. Sara suspected that her son might have been smuggled out of the US Consulate General's office or that he was kidnapped. Sara had seen a suspicious-looking man with a bag, and she was convinced that the bag would help her find her answers. Sara managed to sneak out of the room she was locked in. She climbs to the outside of the building, has a good look and tries to access an outside staircase. As she jumps to the staircase, she bangs her head on the steel grill instead and falls several feet to the ground. She enters the basement of the building instead. As she tried to find her son, she met Irina, who was, in a way, held captive in the building. She was ready to help Sara navigate the place as long as she could get her out of the building. She claims that she has been in the building for months. It was then that Sara came across the bag that she'd previously spotted, and she discovered drugs stored in the bag. She assumed that her son's kidnapping had something to do with drugs. As Sara tries to process this information, Irina is attacked by 2 men, and Sara manages to fight them off after a brutal 1:1 combat. Sara was once again captured by Eric's men, and this time Consul General Deborah Allen (Annabelle Mandeng) tried explaining to her that she was suffering mentally, and they showed her video footage to establish that she was indeed alone when she had entered the US Consulate General. Deborah alleges that due to PTSD Sara is missing or suppressing parts of her memory and hence unable to remember what happened to Joshua. She also says that there is no woman named Irina in the complex and no evidence of an attempt to kidnap her. Irina comes by later to rescue Sara. Irina explained that her real name was Kira Wolkowa (Lera Abova), and she belonged to an influential family from Belarus. Her father was guilty of money laundering, and when he switched parties, the authorities were terrified, and they had him killed. Kira managed to make it to the US embassy in Minsk to avoid becoming the next target. Kira had a thumb drive that held all evidence against her father, and those who had killed her father wanted it. Instead of being transferred directly to the US, Kira was sent to Frankfurt, and she had been waiting for months to make it out of Germany. She had realized that they had no intention of helping her, and she was essentially stuck in the US Consulate General building. Kira strongly believed that the men who'd attacked her and Sara managed to break into her room because Eric's right-hand man, Sergeant Donovan (Kayode Akinyemi) had helped them. He'd asked Kira for her passport a few days before the attack. Kira begged Sara to get back on her feet and to not give up on finding her son. To lure the owners of the blue bag they'd found, Kira dropped a message on the consulate's intranet. As was expected, a man showed interest, and they agreed to meet at the cafeteria. When Sara asked the man about her son, he pretended to know where Joshua was. But Sara was a trained soldier, and she could tell when someone was bluffing. Even though the man, who was just a tech guy working there and was involved in a side hustle, didn't know about where Joshua was, Sara figured he could be of use to them. In exchange for the bag, Sara asked him to make them a key card with all access and the floor plan of the building. The man obliged and got her what she asked for. After talking to the tech guy, Sara realized that her son's kidnapping didn't have anything to do with the drug racket. When Sara and Kira sneaked into Donovan's office and went through his computer, they discovered that the emails Sara had received from a US security company were actually sent by Donovan. Sara wondered if Deborah was the mastermind, but she couldn't find any dirt on her. When they started digging into Eric's past, Sara found out that he too had been a soldier in Afghanistan and later became the Regional Specialist in Islamabad, Pakistan. Sara immediately remembered that an investigative journalist (Ugur Kaya) had contacted her that morning. He'd sent her a video shot in Islamabad. The video, which was related to Sara and her husband's deployment in Afghanistan, featured a man, and Sara realized that he was none other than Eric Kynch. She contacted the journalist who'd sent her the video. She told him that she recognized Eric, and she wanted to get more information on him. She learned from the journalist that, because of an injury, his military career came to an end and that his name often came up in corruption cases, but he was always shielded. The video evidence and a testimony from a source in Pakistan confirmed that Kynch was involved in leaking information to the Taliban, and that was how Sara and her team were ambushed in Afghanistan. The journalist had contacted Sara because she was the only survivor of the ambush, and he hoped that she would be able to identify the man Eric was seen talking to in the video. Sara realized that the man Eric was talking to was a Taliban militant, further confirming the allegation. It became obvious that Eric had planned to destroy Sara because he was afraid of spending the rest of his life in prison. Sara realized that she was putting Kira's life in danger because, clearly, Eric wanted her out of the picture. She advised Kira to hide in one of the trucks that was leaving from the Consulate General building. She asked Kira to take a train to France and fly to Mexico, so she could attempt to make it to the US from there. After helping Kira escape, Sara finally got the chance to confront Eric. She wanted to know why he exposed them to the Taliban. Eric wanted Sara to believe that her life was in danger because of the journalist. He had been putting Eric under so much pressure that he felt compelled to silence Sara. He had no intention of letting go of Joshua, and Sara realized that there was no way she could negotiate with Eric. Since she had no other option, Sara decided to kidnap Eric's daughter, Aileen (Rada Rae) who was visiting Eric at the consulate. She had stolen Aileen's recording toy device from the cafeteria to prove that she was indeed sent by her father. The little girl trusted her, and Sara locked herself and Aileen in a chamber and refused to leave until Eric returned Joshua. Deborah caught a whiff of the chaos, and she demanded Eric work according to protocol. Sara was to be shot dead on sight. Eric pretended to be innocent, and he knew that Sara was not a killer and would not harm his daughter. Sara turned off the air conditioner to put Eric under pressure, but even then, he didn't budge. She felt guilty for making Aileen suffer for her father's sins, so she turned back on the air conditioner and released Aileen under the condition that she wanted to speak to Eric alone. Eric turned off the speaker, fearing that the truth would surface. Deborah didn't know about his past crimes, and she was still under the belief that Sara was delusional and needed help. Sara realized that Eric was ready to kill her, but before that, she believed he owed her an explanation. Eric told her that he had heard she was a fighter, but he chose to take his chance. He believed that his plan started to fall apart the minute Sara witnessed the bag exchange. Even after Sara entered the other building and met Kira, he chose not to interfere. He had assumed Kira's kidnapping would go according to plan, but he was stunned when Sara took down two trained assassins, and it messed everything up for him. As it turned out, Eric had been paid off by the party who wanted to kidnap Kira and steal the thumb drive she was in possession of. Eric wanted to execute two plans simultaneously. On one hand, he planned Kira's kidnapping, and by luring Sara to the US Consulate General, he wanted to cover his tracks. He wanted to prove that Sara was deranged (that was why he kidnapped Joshua, and he chose not to interfere when she escaped from the room she was locked in). He also painstakingly erased Joshua from the surveillance footage to prove she was mentally unstable, and after Kira went missing, everyone would have assumed that she was responsible for it somehow. Eric would have then been allowed to shoot Sara, the only witness to his Taliban association. Eric was frustrated with his life post-injury. He'd realized that even after dedicating his whole life to the military, he lacked financial stability and the grief that came with the job was too unbearable. So, he decided to find ways to make extra money at the cost of innocent lives. Eric tried to justify his actions, saying that he did what he had to for his family. But Sara refused to listen to his hopeless whining, and she asked him to leave. But before he left the sealed chamber, he shot Sara in the abdomen, shot himself in the leg, and left the gun with Sara. Eric established that Sara was dangerous, and she could kill anyone to get what she wanted. To protect the lives of the people in the building, Deborah made a tough call. She decided to bomb the chamber. As the countdown for the explosion began, Sara crawled and grabbed the toy with the recording device embedded in it. She reached the speaker and played the audio. Sara had recorded Eric's confession and there was no way he could escape. While Donovan attempted to escape, Eric stood outside the chamber in silence. It was all over. Joshua was rescued by the military, he had been locked in a secret room in the building. Sara received treatment for her bullet wound. Thankfully, she survived, and she was finally reunited with her son. Eight weeks later, Sara and Joshua were ready to move to the United States. Kira safely made it to the United States and was presumably living with her mother in Boston. The video call confirmed that the two friends would be reunited soon.
The Unlucky
Drama
Film Details
Sara (Jeanne Goursaud), an ex-soldier, suffered from PTSD, and even though getting back to her regular life had been challenging, she continued to fight her thoughts for the sake of her son. Sara met her husband, an American citizen, during her time in Afghanistan. But unfortunately, he lost his life in an ambush.
Joshua (Rickson Guy Da Silva) grew up never knowing his father, and when life started to get suffocating in Germany, Sara decided to move to the United States. She was offered a well-paying security job there, and she had always wanted to show Joshua the country his father was from. She had her plans in place, and all she needed was the visa to finally move out of her country.
As soon as she entered the US Consulate General, her life drastically changed. After Sara left her son for five minutes in the playroom at the US Consulate General, she discovered that Joshua had disappeared. She frantically searched for him but to no avail.
The regional security officer, Eric Kynch (Dougray Scott), tried to establish that Sara was not in her right senses. He tried to gaslight her into thinking that she was alone when she came to the US Consulate General. The German police cannot help as they have no authority to enter the Consulate building.
But Sara trusted her memory and refused to be manipulated by a man she barely knew. Sara suspected that her son might have been smuggled out of the US Consulate General's office or that he was kidnapped. Sara had seen a suspicious-looking man with a bag, and she was convinced that the bag would help her find her answers.
Sara managed to sneak out of the room she was locked in. She climbs to the outside of the building, has a good look and tries to access an outside staircase. As she jumps to the staircase, she bangs her head on the steel grill instead and falls several feet to the ground.
She enters the basement of the building instead. As she tried to find her son, she met Irina, who was, in a way, held captive in the building. She was ready to help Sara navigate the place as long as she could get her out of the building.
She claims that she has been in the building for months. It was then that Sara came across the bag that she'd previously spotted, and she discovered drugs stored in the bag. She assumed that her son's kidnapping had something to do with drugs.
As Sara tries to process this information, Irina is attacked by 2 men, and Sara manages to fight them off after a brutal 1:1 combat. Sara was once again captured by Eric's men, and this time Consul General Deborah Allen (Annabelle Mandeng) tried explaining to her that she was suffering mentally, and they showed her video footage to establish that she was indeed alone when she had entered the US Consulate General. Deborah alleges that due to PTSD Sara is missing or suppressing parts of her memory and hence unable to remember what happened to Joshua.
She also says that there is no woman named Irina in the complex and no evidence of an attempt to kidnap her. Irina comes by later to rescue Sara. Irina explained that her real name was Kira Wolkowa (Lera Abova), and she belonged to an influential family from Belarus.
Her father was guilty of money laundering, and when he switched parties, the authorities were terrified, and they had him killed. Kira managed to make it to the US embassy in Minsk to avoid becoming the next target. Kira had a thumb drive that held all evidence against her father, and those who had killed her father wanted it.
Instead of being transferred directly to the US, Kira was sent to Frankfurt, and she had been waiting for months to make it out of Germany. She had realized that they had no intention of helping her, and she was essentially stuck in the US Consulate General building. Kira strongly believed that the men who'd attacked her and Sara managed to break into her room because Eric's right-hand man, Sergeant Donovan (Kayode Akinyemi) had helped them.
He'd asked Kira for her passport a few days before the attack. Kira begged Sara to get back on her feet and to not give up on finding her son. To lure the owners of the blue bag they'd found, Kira dropped a message on the consulate's intranet.
As was expected, a man showed interest, and they agreed to meet at the cafeteria. When Sara asked the man about her son, he pretended to know where Joshua was. But Sara was a trained soldier, and she could tell when someone was bluffing.
Even though the man, who was just a tech guy working there and was involved in a side hustle, didn't know about where Joshua was, Sara figured he could be of use to them. In exchange for the bag, Sara asked him to make them a key card with all access and the floor plan of the building. The man obliged and got her what she asked for.
After talking to the tech guy, Sara realized that her son's kidnapping didn't have anything to do with the drug racket. When Sara and Kira sneaked into Donovan's office and went through his computer, they discovered that the emails Sara had received from a US security company were actually sent by Donovan. Sara wondered if Deborah was the mastermind, but she couldn't find any dirt on her.
When they started digging into Eric's past, Sara found out that he too had been a soldier in Afghanistan and later became the Regional Specialist in Islamabad, Pakistan. Sara immediately remembered that an investigative journalist (Ugur Kaya) had contacted her that morning. He'd sent her a video shot in Islamabad.
The video, which was related to Sara and her husband's deployment in Afghanistan, featured a man, and Sara realized that he was none other than Eric Kynch. She contacted the journalist who'd sent her the video. She told him that she recognized Eric, and she wanted to get more information on him.
She learned from the journalist that, because of an injury, his military career came to an end and that his name often came up in corruption cases, but he was always shielded. The video evidence and a testimony from a source in Pakistan confirmed that Kynch was involved in leaking information to the Taliban, and that was how Sara and her team were ambushed in Afghanistan. The journalist had contacted Sara because she was the only survivor of the ambush, and he hoped that she would be able to identify the man Eric was seen talking to in the video.
Sara realized that the man Eric was talking to was a Taliban militant, further confirming the allegation. It became obvious that Eric had planned to destroy Sara because he was afraid of spending the rest of his life in prison. Sara realized that she was putting Kira's life in danger because, clearly, Eric wanted her out of the picture.
She advised Kira to hide in one of the trucks that was leaving from the Consulate General building. She asked Kira to take a train to France and fly to Mexico, so she could attempt to make it to the US from there. After helping Kira escape, Sara finally got the chance to confront Eric.
She wanted to know why he exposed them to the Taliban. Eric wanted Sara to believe that her life was in danger because of the journalist. He had been putting Eric under so much pressure that he felt compelled to silence Sara.
He had no intention of letting go of Joshua, and Sara realized that there was no way she could negotiate with Eric. Since she had no other option, Sara decided to kidnap Eric's daughter, Aileen (Rada Rae) who was visiting Eric at the consulate. She had stolen Aileen's recording toy device from the cafeteria to prove that she was indeed sent by her father.
The little girl trusted her, and Sara locked herself and Aileen in a chamber and refused to leave until Eric returned Joshua. Deborah caught a whiff of the chaos, and she demanded Eric work according to protocol. Sara was to be shot dead on sight.
Eric pretended to be innocent, and he knew that Sara was not a killer and would not harm his daughter. Sara turned off the air conditioner to put Eric under pressure, but even then, he didn't budge. She felt guilty for making Aileen suffer for her father's sins, so she turned back on the air conditioner and released Aileen under the condition that she wanted to speak to Eric alone.
Eric turned off the speaker, fearing that the truth would surface. Deborah didn't know about his past crimes, and she was still under the belief that Sara was delusional and needed help. Sara realized that Eric was ready to kill her, but before that, she believed he owed her an explanation.
Eric told her that he had heard she was a fighter, but he chose to take his chance. He believed that his plan started to fall apart the minute Sara witnessed the bag exchange. Even after Sara entered the other building and met Kira, he chose not to interfere.
He had assumed Kira's kidnapping would go according to plan, but he was stunned when Sara took down two trained assassins, and it messed everything up for him. As it turned out, Eric had been paid off by the party who wanted to kidnap Kira and steal the thumb drive she was in possession of. Eric wanted to execute two plans simultaneously.
On one hand, he planned Kira's kidnapping, and by luring Sara to the US Consulate General, he wanted to cover his tracks. He wanted to prove that Sara was deranged (that was why he kidnapped Joshua, and he chose not to interfere when she escaped from the room she was locked in). He also painstakingly erased Joshua from the surveillance footage to prove she was mentally unstable, and after Kira went missing, everyone would have assumed that she was responsible for it somehow.
Eric would have then been allowed to shoot Sara, the only witness to his Taliban association. Eric was frustrated with his life post-injury. He'd realized that even after dedicating his whole life to the military, he lacked financial stability and the grief that came with the job was too unbearable.
So, he decided to find ways to make extra money at the cost of innocent lives. Eric tried to justify his actions, saying that he did what he had to for his family. But Sara refused to listen to his hopeless whining, and she asked him to leave.
But before he left the sealed chamber, he shot Sara in the abdomen, shot himself in the leg, and left the gun with Sara. Eric established that Sara was dangerous, and she could kill anyone to get what she wanted. To protect the lives of the people in the building, Deborah made a tough call.
She decided to bomb the chamber. As the countdown for the explosion began, Sara crawled and grabbed the toy with the recording device embedded in it. She reached the speaker and played the audio.
Sara had recorded Eric's confession and there was no way he could escape. While Donovan attempted to escape, Eric stood outside the chamber in silence. It was all over.
Joshua was rescued by the military, he had been locked in a secret room in the building. Sara received treatment for her bullet wound. Thankfully, she survived, and she was finally reunited with her son.
Eight weeks later, Sara and Joshua were ready to move to the United States. Kira safely made it to the United States and was presumably living with her mother in Boston. The video call confirmed that the two friends would be reunited soon..