The Wakhan Front (French May 2016)

The war against terrorism is tinged with horror that may move “both heaven and earth.” In 2014, a French army Captain Bonassieu and his NATO-led security forces are stationed in Wakhan District, Afghanistan. Their day-to-day duties involve surveillance of the local sheep-farming villagers while looking out for the invisible traces of Taliban. While waiting to withdraw from Afghanistan, things suddenly get jeopardous and weird. A civilian approaches the border near Pakistan. A dozen villagers burn a sheep at night. Two soldiers disappear after their night shift. The troop begins to be panic while Captain counsels sangfroid, as other soldiers vanish. Does the appearance of composure conflicts with the cruelties of war? Are terrorists or supernatural phenomena behind the missing soldiers? In the long shots of immense barren landscape, humans become tiny dots in dust.