by
Glen Evans
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama
Logline:
When beautiful Brishna is captured by the Taliban, her life and the lives of the people around her will be turned upside down as she seeks for a better life away from a war torn country.
Synopsis:
: Lieutenant Adam Steele and his platoon are sent out on patrol in a small village in Afghanistan. They come across a Taliban safe house and inside the house Steele finds a beautiful girl. Her name is Brishna and she speaks English fluently. Brishna was being held captive by the Taliban. The Taliban have threatened to kill her family unless she does exactly as they order her to do. Steele is immediately enchanted by this beautiful girl and promises to assist her to seek a better life away from a war torn country.
Back at base Steele spends more time with Brishna, as they become more acquainted. A patrol is sent out to check on Brishna's story and they discover that Brishna's entire family has been killed by the Taliban. Steele breaks the news to her. Steele suggests that she should start a new life in a new country. Brishna is intrigued by Australia.
Steele's tour is soon coming to an end and he has no plans to return to Afghanistan. Steele leaves the Army as the guilt of two injured soldiers haunt him. Steele returns to Australia. Brishna's unable to get a passport due to a passport freeze. Steele talks to a friend of his, Andy, who is a Federal Agent working on People Smuggling. Andy gives Steele some names of some people smugglers who might be able to get Brishna into Australia. Steele returns to Afghanistan to travel with Brishna when they leave the village and are confronted by a Taliban ambush. With the assistance of coalition forces, Steele and Brishna manage to fight their way through.
Steele plans to bring Brishna to Australia via Indonesia. In Indonesia Steele meets a local people smuggler and he pays him $8,000 for a place for Brishna on his boat. Brishna gets on the vessel and manages to be sent to an immigration detention centre on Christmas Island for six months before being flown to Australia for settlement. In Australia, Brishna lives with Steele in Sydney.
Meanwhile Brishna's last surviving family member, her uncle, is actually an insurgent for the Taliban. He succumbs to his death in a car bomb explosion whilst driving a car to its final target destination, an Afghan Government building. Coalition soldiers raid his house and locate covert documents. The documents indicate plans to send Afghani women to western countries where they become suicide bombers whilst their families are held captive at the mercy of the Taliban.
Six months later Brishna is released and lives with Steele in Sydney. Australian Security Intelligence Organistaion are informed of the plans of the suicide bombers and are aware that Brishna is living in Australia under an alias name. They believe she has close links with Taliban insurgents. Brishna and Steele are forced to go on the run. In Queensland, Brishna is snatched by CIA and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. She is interviewed and they deport her to Afghanistan.
Steel befriends a Security Intelligence Officer who he worked with in Iraq to find out that Brishna was deported to Afghanistan. Steele is unaware that she is pregnant with his child. Steele travels back to Afghanistan with the help of an Captain Robert Anderson from the American Army to attempt to locate Brishna. Little does he know that he actually sees Brishna in a village, but because she is heavily pregnant in the distance Steele believes that it would be impossible to be her? Steele and Anderson are being followed by the Taliban before engaging in a fire fight.
In Afghanistan Brishna has a baby girl. Brishna and her daughter are captured by the Taliban who have been desperately trying to locate her. American soldiers innocently raid the Taliban house to find Brishna and her daughter. Brishna is escorted back to the coalition base when the convoy comes under mortar attack. Brishna is killed by a Taliban attack before she is reunited with Steele. Brishna's daughter survives and she returns to Australia with Steele.
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Submission Date: 2010-07-02 02:14:52
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