When a bus is taken hostage, a woman comes to terms with her death.

A secret agent evades torture in a cliff hanger mystery.

In contemporary Haiti, a 17-year-old girl with aspirations to attend university in the U.S. is entangled in a multi-national kidnapping plot that changes her family forever.

Two enemies become inextricably linked when one chooses mercy.

As a group of international journalists flee the Nazi invasion of Paris, they seek refuge at a man's home, but the man decides to hold them hostage. The group must decide how much they're willing to pay for their freedom.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

After losing her child at the hands of the Nigerian government, a mother attempts to seek asylum in America, where her husband has fled as a political refugee.

A hostage situation goes awfully wrong when a lion is introduced to the mix.

An American visits an Israeli friend from his past who had recently emigrated to Maine and gotten remarried. They discuss the hostage situation in the Middle East and she reflects on where her loyalties lie.

When a young diplomat stationed in Saudi Arabia stands in for his superior to address a mysterious case involving family honor, things take a violent turn for the worse.