La ragazza che non voleva morire

The drama of Chechnya and a great love story

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Madina is a young Chechen terrorist. Her parents died during the Russian bombing of Grozny, in 2000. Trained by her uncle and forced to make an attack in the centre of Moscow, at the very last minute she refuses and gets herself free of her explosive belt, which will anyway cause one victim: a policeman, for whose death she will be jailed. Her lawyer’s assistant (and her aunt), Olga, will try to save her from life imprisonment. Her grandfather, too, the rude Sultan Nuralidov, struggles to get her free and to free also her little brother Shamil (13 years old) from the game of Wahabit resistance.

In the meantime in Paris, Louis de Monfalcon, correspondent of a French paper, discovers the story of Madina and gets involved in it. Olga fascinates him with her seductive arts. Between them a feeling is born, overwhelming, that will change the destiny of the protagonists. So the story of a whole people intertwines with the lives of a just divorced European, in middle-age crisis. He will be the one to report on a world that maybe he cannot understand but which tricks him to the point that he decides to take Olga with him to Paris. A one way travel for the fascinating Russian woman, which will eventually affect in a strange way also the destiny of the young and untameable Madina…..