Three Australian prisoners are rescued by an ISIS defector but refuse to trust him.
They each believe that his act of kindness and self-sacrifice is a ruse to further destroy their morale and to emotionally and physically torture them.
ISIS defector Muhamad Ali cannot let his own guard down and must threaten them with his gun, or else they would all pounce and kill him.
Muhamad knows his threat is as empty as the ammunition in his gun.
Still, he leaves them each with only two options, fight and die or work together and survive together.
Muhamad is also their best chance of escaping from their cave and making it to the Australian base ten miles away. Their biggest threat isn’t in a bullet or explosive, but the distrust between them.
Vincent Sala-Tenna's directorial debut 'The Fate Of Freedom' (Tesseract Productions) is designed for impact.
Producer Aaron Smith believes the show creates discussion about tense issues.
“I think the show comes with a balanced argument that says that we need recognise there are truly dangerous people out there who want to do us harm, but that we should also realise that conflict and division is an even greater enemy and the best way forward is to discern the good from the bad and to learn who to trust.”
“I like that there's no 'bad guy' in the play, everyone has motivations that we can empathise with, yet we see how the distrust between them is what almost leads to their destruction.”
“Ultimately, war itself is a grotesque act that drags innocent people (from both sides) in, who only want to live peacefully, and the fighting itself only benefits an elite few.”
