2009 年 10 月 15 日，科罗拉多州柯林斯堡的一位父亲拨打 911 报警，声称他自制的飞碟从后院逃走，并带着他六岁的儿子飞上了天空。这则匪夷所思的传闻得到了新闻直升机画面的“佐证”。直升机追上了飞碟，并现场直播了追捕过程。起初只是一场地方性紧急事件，却迅速升级为全国性紧急事件，从国民警卫队到警长，再到国土安全部，每个人都在努力制定安全营救“气球男孩”的方案。 当气球缓缓降落时，人们祈祷着奇迹般的重逢，但他们却发现里面根本没有男孩。这场看似悲剧的事件急转直下，演变成一场闹剧。公众的同情迅速转化为义愤，“气球男孩”也迅速成为美国历史上最臭名昭著、最离奇的新闻事件之一。
When talking about Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, what immediately comes to mind are lace, tall wigs, flamboyant clothes and colours, Versailles, or… the guillotine. Here, between these two extremes, exists a middle ground, a period of time seldom explored: the few months when the last king and queen of France were imprisoned, with their two young children, in a black castle on the outskirts of Paris, awaiting their executions. A brief and condensed period where, amidst violence and harassment, all masks fell off: those of two royals, as public and private figures that of the old regime that of a History that finally turned the page and that of God who, from then on, was eclipsed by the shadows, leaving man entirely alone.
本作は、13歳のときから現在に至るまで拉致されたままの横田めぐみさんを主軸に、田口八重子さんを含む拉致被害者の苦悩と闘いを、綿密な取材にもとづきリアルに描写した劇映画。1人の女性が体験する悲劇や、家族の愛情と正義に立ち向かう人々の織りなすドラマが映し出される。
