In any story, if it’s a good story, there is that which is seen, and that which is hidden.
This is especially true in stories of war.
There is the war we see; a contest of bombs and bullets, courage, sacrifice, and brute force, as we count the winners, the losers, and the dead.
But alongside this war another war is waged; a battleground in shades of gray, played out in deception, seduction, and bad faith.
The participants are strange. They are seldom what they seem, and fiction and reality blur.
This war is a wilderness of mirrors in which the truth is protected by a bodyguard of lies…
This was our war…
It is only fitting that the two wars finally converge in the darkness.
The target is no longer hidden.
The points are set, and the forces gather.
Brave men, their lives hanging in the balance, their fate unknowable, their part in history unwritten.
But who, in these last hours, will bear witness to the hidden war…unseen by history, locked away in a buried file…its tragedies and triumphs unspoken…its heroes unsung?
It is in this moment…this suspended moment, that our story waits for an ending…
~ Operation Mincement – Film Nation Entertainment, 2021
