The story is based on covert Israeli military operations to rescue Ethiopian Jews in the early 1980s
as they escaped famine and the brutal Marxist regime of Mengistu Hailemariam.
Chris Evans from Marvel’s Captain America, plays the Israeli agent who ran an operation
with a ragtag team of spies, using a deserted holiday retreat as a front.
The most famous real-life missions were Operation Solomon and Operation Moses
which airlifted thousands of Ethiopians to Israel via Sudan.
There are currently more than 150,000 Ethiopian Jews now living in Israel.
About 7,000 of them still remain stranded and in uncertainty in Ethiopia
waiting to reunite with their families in the Jewish state.