In Erdogan's Turkey, Can Dündar has been regarded as "public enemy No. 1" ever since he exposed illegal arms shipments by the Turkish government to Syria back in 2015. The president personally described the journalist as a terrorist and called for him to be locked up for life.
As the trial got underway, Dündar survived an assassination attempt and fled to Germany. Since then, he's been working to defend his homeland against the autocrat's lies and speak out in favor of truth and freedom.
Dündar meets a woman with a mission not of her choosing. In 2020, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's husband Sergei Tikhanovsky advanced from blogger to presidential candidate against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. But like all opponents deemed to be potentially dangerous, he was jailed.
In a spontaneous move, Tsikhanouskaya submitted her own candidacy for the post — and was permitted to run. Lukashenko didn't see her as a threat, but Tsikhanouskaya and her team captured the hearts of the people and her popularity levels soared. When election day came and Lukashenko claimed victory with an alleged 80% of the vote, hundreds of thousands of people cried fraud and took to the streets in protest. Tsikhanouskaya received death threats and was forced into exile.
But her fight against Lukashenko continues, from Lithuania. She has been received by world leaders and showered with awards. Can Dündar accompanies Tsikhanouskaya on her travels and experiences her struggle to secure freedom for political prisoners, including her husband. Dündar experiences a woman who, to this day, doesn't feel totally at ease in her role. How can someone who never wanted power be a leader?