Following a terrorist attack, an oil well caught fire. The only solution to avoid disaster is to detonate it in a controlled manner. A team of adventurers is then hired to transport a shipment of nitroglycerin to the site. But the geopolitical situation of the country where the story takes place is more than unstable. And two of the participants in the operation, brothers, have scores to settle…
The fourth known cinematographic adaptation of the legendary novel “The Wages of Fear”, by Georges Arnaud and published in 1949, that of Julien Leclercq (director of the film and series “Braqueurs”) dusts off both the form and the content. The director moves the action to our time, and from Central America to an imaginary Arab country, prey to political upheavals and terrorism.
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