Norman Baert

The Belgian PM is abducted and he finds his wife and children taken hostage. If he wants to see them again – alive – he has to kill the person he is meeting later that day. And that person is no less than... the president of the United States.

영국 소설가 모 헤이더(Mo Hayder)의 소설 The Treatment를 바탕으로 벨기에에서 만들어진 영화. 어린 시절 동생이 유괴된 사건으로 트라우마를 안고 있는 형사 닉. 동생을 연상시키는 사건이 일어나게 되고, 닉은 사건의 해결과 동생 사건의 실마리를 찾기 위해 불물 안 가리고 뛰어다닌다는 것이 전반적인 줄거리 (출처: 시네스트 by Pluto)

Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.

Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.

A young thug is up to no good