The idealistic privateers of the 60s and 70s were truly curious people: strange guys seeking to get attention for their revolution and who took passengers hostage in the name of the people. A plane hijacking didn’t automatically mean fatal victims. But the more repressive the reaction of the state, the more sensational media coverage became and the more the hijackings escalated.  The romantic revolutionary became an anonymous bomber. Media coverage became more and more grim and explicit, journalists became disaster tourists, and we, watching from our couches, suffered the same fate.

De film wordt voorafgegaan door een kortfilm van Johan Grimonprez:

Three Thoughts on Terror [ with Robert Fisk, Jeremy Scahill & Vijay Prashad ]. 2018, 5min