They were trapped in an ideology for years. They gave up their entire lives and themselves for it. They were extremists: Dominic Schmitz and Felix Benneckenstein, an ex-Salafist and a former neo-Nazi, travel back into their past. Two young people who became extremists during puberty. In completely different groups and yet so similar in their biographies. Based on their stories, the film poses one of the most burning questions of our time: Why do people become radicalized? What causes hatred to develop? The documentary does not seek to denounce, but to understand.
They were trapped in an ideology for years. They gave up their entire lives and themselves for it. They were extremists: Dominic Schmitz and Felix Benneckenstein, an ex-Salafist and a former neo-Nazi, travel back into their past. Two young people who became extremists during puberty. In completely different groups and yet so similar in their biographies. Based on their stories, the film poses one of the most burning questions of our time: Why do people become radicalized? What causes hatred to develop? The documentary does not seek to denounce, but to understand.