The Journey

The sources of European terrorism are examined in this fascinating, if ultimately superficial, drama. The film opens with a gang of terrorists preparing to smuggle a bomb from Italy into Germany, where it will be used in an attack on the US embassy. The children of gang members are not far away, waiting to be shipped off to a PLO training camp for safekeeping and indoctrination, when a bearded man kidnaps one of the children. He turns out to be Boysen, the boy's father, who has split from the gang. The boy's mother, Kirchhoff, is outraged to hear that her son has been taken by Boysen. From here the film moves back and forth in time, from the terrorists' pursuit of ...