THE RANSOM
Every year, 30,000 people are kidnapped for ransom. With hostage-taking on the rise, a secret and lucrative business is flourishing. Rémi Lainé’s film “The Ransom” delves into the heart of this shadowy world, where cynicism prevails over morality. For, on the pretext of saving a man, the price of his life is coldly assessed.
At the heart of the film are three high points: following a team of Venezuelan negotiators for the release of a hostage, the detailed account of a successful negotiation by a journalist kidnapped in Syria and the negotiators who freed him, and the decoding of a vast global network of insurers and negotiators that today constitutes a form of private police.
