'The Meadow' charts the fates of ten backpackers taken hostage by Islamic extremists in Kashmir in July 1995. It tells of the escape of one hostage, the secret letters another wrote and hid in his clothing as he contemplated his situation, and how, with a brutal beheading, the kidnappers took an irreversible step into the abyss.
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'The Meadow' charts the fates of ten backpackers taken hostage by Islamic extremists in Kashmir in July 1995. It tells of the escape of one hostage, the secret letters another wrote and hid in his clothing as he contemplated his situation, and how, with a brutal beheading, the kidnappers took an irreversible step into the abyss.