John Sendel is a typical disillusioned teenager. The kind that snap and start shooting at their school. Part of a generation reared by television, he is willing to weild the impetuousness of youth in a self-destructive manner. But when he stumbles upon fundamentalist Islam through his friend Salim, his world is transformed. Now his life has a purpose: jihad. But the deeper he becomes emeshed, the more frightening the road becomes. Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, this is a chillingly real and hotly topical tale. In b/w throughout.
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John Sendel is a typical disillusioned teenager. The kind that snap and start shooting at their school. Part of a generation reared by television, he is willing to weild the impetuousness of youth in a self-destructive manner. But when he stumbles upon fundamentalist Islam through his friend Salim, his world is transformed. Now his life has a purpose: jihad. But the deeper he becomes emeshed, the more frightening the road becomes. Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, this is a chillingly real and hotly topical tale. In b/w throughout.