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The State is a powerful and hard-hitting new drama from the award-winning writer/director Peter Kosminsky (Wolf Hall, The Promise) . A compelling and topical fictional story, based on extensive research, it follows the experiences of four young British men and women who leave their lives behind to join ISIS in Syria.We meet Shakira, a doctor, and her young son Isaac, Ushna, a 16 year-old who sneaks out of her parents' house, and childhood friends Jalal and Ziyaad, both 19, as they travel across borders and undertake training, including learning how to use a suicide belt. Jalal is following in the footsteps of his brother, who also defected to ISIS and died a martyr. It's soon made clear to the him and Ziyaad that their ultimate goal is also martyrdom: there will be no higher honour than dying on the battlefield.

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