Caliphate

A thriller centring on five young women, whose fate is intertwined in an examination of how religious fundamentalism can seduce individuals and destroy lives.

September 2015 – Swedish Security Service-agent Fatima’s career has been derailed following a mistake, with her colleagues showing less and less confidence in her, until one day she gets a very worrying call. Pervin, a young Swedish woman, is trapped in Raqqa where her husband Husam is connected to a religious fundamentalist group. She lives in constant terror over the mindless violence surrounding her and fears for her and her daughter’s life. She tells Fatima that she is her only hope, but Fatima hesitates.

However, when Pervin tells Fatima that her husband and his group of Swedish jihadists are planning a large-scale terrorist act in Sweden, with one having already returned to prepare for the attack, Fatima drives Pervin to find out more in order to prevent it.

At the same time, in the girl’s room in another Swedish family, Sulle quarrels with her sister Lisha about which member of the band One Direction is the best.

However, Sulle has already directed her attention in another and altogether different manner. After discovering Ibrahim, the cool Student Assistant at her school who treats her like an adult, she starts to reconsider her life according to his influence.

When Fatima tries to convince her bosses at the Middle East department about the seriousness of the information she has been given by Pervin, she is met with a compact disinterest. What is really happening? At the same time, she drives Pervin to find out more. Something that arouses suspicion in her husband. This is how a dangerous game with sky-high stakes begins.