3 Australian prisoners are rescued by ISIS defector ‘Muhamad Ali’ but refuse to trust him, being sure that his act of kindness and self-sacrifice to be a ruse used to further destroy their morale and to emotionally and physically torture them. Ali cannot let his own guard down and must threaten them with his gun, or else they would all pounce and kill him. Though Ali knows his threat is as empty as the ammunition in his gun. Still, the stalemate leaves them each with only 2 options, fight and die or work together and survive together. Ali is also their best chance of escaping from their cave and making it to the Australian base 10 miles away. Their biggest threat isn’t in a bullet or explosive, but the distrust between them.

The Fate of Freedom contains mild themes, suitable for children supervised by an adult.