Akelli

Spoiler-free synopsis

In 2014, Jyoti, an Indian woman lands in Mosul to take up a new job as supervisor in a garments factory. She is received at the airport by Raafiq, a Pakistani national, also an employee at the factory. On the way from the airport, she witnesses a little girl who has been strapped to a bomb and is killed when the bomb disposal team is unable to disable the bomb. Earlier, she had gotten fired from her job at an airport in India after an altercation with an unruly passenger. Because of this, she is unable to get a new job. Her family's financial problems force her to take a job in Iraq even though she knows that it's not safe there and anything can happen. She lies to her family that she has taken a job in much safer Muscat. At the factory, she gets friendly to Raafiq and develops romantic feelings for him. A few weeks later, ISIS forces attack Mosul and also capture the factory. They kill anyone trying to escape or who is not cooperating with them. They segregate the factory staff into 3 groups, men, women and a few who are to be spared. Raafiq is among those spared. The men are taken to an open field and shot dead, while the women are taken to a facility and sold as sex slaves. Jyoti is bought by one of the ISIS fighters, who tries to rape her. However, she pushes him, and he falls, bangs his head on a hard corner and dies. The other ISIS fighters discover this and are astonished. She is given off to Assad, a senior commander, who lives in a palatial house. He is impressed by her and forces her to marry and live with him. She is imprisoned in a small room, where she meets two young girls, Mahira and Afra who are also sex slaves of Assad. The next day, she is taken to Assad's bedroom, where he rapes her. The next morning when she wakes up, she sees Assad is still sleeping, and finds a pair of handcuffs and a pistol on a table. Just as she handcuffs Assad, he wakes up and there is a scuffle. In the scuffle, she shoots Assad on the shoulder. Hearing the gunshot, his guards come to his room to enquire, when the door opens and Jyoti comes out with Assad as hostage with the gun pointed to his head. Using Assad as hostage, she gets the two girls also released and locks the guards and Assad's wives into a room. They find a car and drive away from the place. While escaping, Assad jumps out of the car. They reach an Iraqi army checkpoint, where the local commander takes them to his home where his wife gives them food. However, when one of the girls overhears them planning to sell them back to ISIS for money, they escape from there with ISIS in hot pursuit. But they are saved in the nick of time when they reach a Peshmerga outpost where a sniper kills the ISIS soldiers and they are taken to a UN refugee camp. In the refugee camp, the two girls meet their uncle who is a Peshmerga commander, and he promises to help her get back to India. He arranges for her to get a UN identity card and papers and to be driven to Mosul Airport. However, before she can board the waiting aircraft, Assad also arrives at Mosul airport looking for her. At the airport, she escapes being detected, and hides on the rooftop. At the rooftop, Raafiq, purportedly now a member of ISIS, turns up and tells her he will help her get to the aircraft by shutting off the airport lights, whereby she can get to it under the cover of darkness. He also gives her a letter to send to his family in Pakistan, after she gets back to India. Once it gets dark, Raafiq turns off the lights and Jyoti