應正式邀請，俄羅斯社會學家馬克西姆·舒加利（Maxim Shugaley）及其同伴和翻譯薩梅爾·蘇凡（Samer Sueifan）前往被激進組織分裂的利比亞。他們的任務是進行研究，以結束戰爭。但是，在工作過程中，俄羅斯專家遭到武裝分子綁架，并被關在私人監獄中長達一年多。由于和平解決這一問題的外交努力陷入僵局，俄羅斯方面開始準備實施救援行動。
Russian sociologist Maxim Shugalei and his colleague interpreter Samer Suifan are still imprisoned in a Libya. For more than a year now they tortured and psychologically abused. Nevertheless while imprisoned, Maksim Shugalei continues to work trying to understand the logic of the global terrorism actions. Collected by the sociologist information is dangerous for the Lybian mili...