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Synopsis: One afternoon, on a typical day at work, Adib is confronted with devastating news: His eldest daughter, Muna, has gone missing in Damascus. Now Adib, who has not been back in over 20 years, must return to Syria and deal with his secret past in order to find her. Inescapable is a thriller about a father's desperate search for his daughter and the chaos of the Middle East he left behind.
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Ruba Nadda
Production: IFC Films
 
IMDB:
5.2
Metacritic:
37
Rotten Tomatoes:
19%
R
Year:
2012
93 min
$4,063
Website
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Do you know that man?

No, I don't know him.

I need you to get me in

to see Sayid.

Sayid... You're crazy.

Sayid.

Time hasn't been too kind to you either,

my friend.

- Ah, such good friends, Adib.

- Look at all these! What is this?

We were like brothers.

What happened?

No letter, no goodbye, no postcard!

I'm hurt!

- So is my mother.

- How is she?

Keeps driving me crazy.

- Please give her my love.

- I will.

So what brings you back?

My daughter has gone missing.

Here.

What was she doing here?

Visiting her father's homeland.

Homeland?

I'm surprised, very surprised you're here.

Reckless. You haven't changed.

So where do you...

where do you live now?

Toronto.

- Canada?

- Yes.

- Really?

- Yes.

I remember when we were following that...

Armenian gunrunner through Mount Hermon.

You couldn't stop complaining about the cold.

I got used to it.

Ah, you're a lucky man.

Luck... has nothing to do with it.

Did you visit the Canadian embassy?

First thing I did.

So talk, I'm interested.

Are you happy?

Until recently...

And what do you do in Toronto, Canada?

Computers.

Yeah, bank.

Operations manager.

A long way from what you used to be.

It is. I may retire soon.

And what on Earth will you do then?

Golf.

Golf?

So, uh... who have you seen

since you've been back?

Fatima.

How about our old friend Detlev?

You talk to him recently?

I assumed he returned to Moscow.

Listen, Adib...

I appreciate the opportunity to catch up,

but, uh...

I think you shouldn't come back

and visit me again.

Why? Guilt...

...by association.

Well, there is that.

But, uh... I may decide

to have you arrested.

I'm not leaving Syria

without my daughter.

Should've been more forthright

with your family.

Of course you couldn't...

Do you have her passport?

She's beautiful.

- Thank you.

I'll check into it.

A favour for a dear old friend.

If I need to reach you,

I'll do it through the Canadian embassy.

- Who should I talk to?

- Paul... Ridge.

Paul Ridge...

She, uh...

She didn't choose

a very good time to visit, did she.

No.

She didn't.

- So? So?

- He's still obsessed with you.

He proposed, you know?

- After you left.

- And?

And? And? It's none of your business.

Adib.

I've been waiting here for hours.

We didn't have an appointment.

Hmm.

I thought that we did.

I need to take a look inside of her room.

Were you able to find her camera

or her computer?

No.

Any idea what could've happened or why?

I have a few ideas.

Whatever it is that you're doing here...

I need you to stop.

Let me do my job.

You could be putting yourself

or your daughter at risk.

You're here on an illegal visa

and I already have one missing Canadian.

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Ruba Nadda

Ruba Nadda (born 6 December 1972) is a Canadian film director. She made several award-winning short films, including Lost Woman Story, Interstate Love Story, So Far Gone and Damascus Nights before writing and directing features I Always Come to You, Unsettled and Sabah. Her movie Cairo Time won the Best Canadian Feature Film award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and was Best Reviewed Romance on Rotten Tomatoes for 2010. She is known for shooting feature films in very short time spans. more…

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