ISIS takeover of Mosul forces two archeologists to masquerade as doctors to stay alive while uncovering a pre-Christian mystery that becomes the center of interest for several governments, the Vatican, and corporate-military groups unknown. Multiple festival finalist & winner.

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SYNOPSIS:

Invited by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture to analyze a new archeological discovery in Nineveh, DR. DANIEL KOURY (38) arrives in Mosul, where he visits his never-met-before grandfather SHINAR KHOURI (68) who is disappointed in his ‘Americanization’, and family name change, as he is the last of the family line, however drop the issue when suicide bombings go off down the street. Arriving at the dig site, Daniel examines the scrolls and several coins recovered from the find, which are from era prior to, and at the birth of Christianity.Lovely, mysterious Iraqi AMIRA RAHAL (33), director of the site, resents an outsider being called in on her ‘find’, but later warms a little when she sees his knowledge and considerable contributions.

Daniel and Amira return to Mosul, have dinner at Shinar’s house when ISIS forces invade the city. Shinar convinces ISIS soldiers Daniel and Amira are a married couple, and medical doctors. ISIS soldiers take Daniel and Amira to their headquarters, where Commander HAKIM HALABI (22) presses them into service as medics. After the ISIS camp is ravaged by gunships, Commander Halabi makes his new camp at a more secure place: the Nineveh excavation site. Daniel, Amira, and their helpers continue to excavate and analyze the site while impersonating medical doctors, and find a secret chamber, where a small band of local Christians, keepers of ancient texts led by JOSIAH (28), are hiding from ISIS.

A higher ISIS commander, ABULLA ATTAHARI (44) arrives at the site, Daniel and Amira deflect his intense questions concerning the artifacts found there, which has drawn the attention from not only ISIS, but an unknown paramilitary force lurking & undefined corporate executives, State Department officials & the Vatican as well.

The ISIS controlled excavation site is attacked by an unknown international paramilitary group, Daniel, Amira, and the workers hide in the tunnels leading to the secret chamber, which is now sealed from the inside. After ISIS forces are destroyed, the paramilitary finds Daniel, Amira, and the workers in the tunnel, evacuate them, later blowing open the secret chamber door, only to find it empty.

TEXT MESSAGES TO GOD