Converts
Oct 15, 2016 | IMDB 0
35 min Watch NowDrama, Thriller
Maija is a young and ambitious journalist who wants to do something that no other journalist has dared. In order to conduct a groundbreaking research on Daesh, she pretends to be an Islamic convert and tries to join them.
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