Age guidance: 12+ Themes include discrimination or prejudice, references to torture or war, themes of grief or bereavement, references to trauma, references to death, references to genocide, references to miscarriage, graphic imagery, gunshots, flashing lights or strobe lighting, haze, wind, and scent.
In the wake of the First Gulf War, Saddam Hussein’s forces in Iraq crush the Kurdish uprising and two million civilians flee into the freezing mountains. As the crisis unfolds unprecedentedly on television screens around the world, a small group inside Whitehall tries to shift policy before the window closes. Set between the Kurdish mountains and the Whitehall offices, Safe Haven follows two diplomats and a Kurdish refugee, pushing the British government to act and prevent another genocide.