This biography pieces together the unbelievable journey of the Swiss pro-Palestine activist Bruno Breguet. His story begins in the 1970s as an idealistic high school student from idyllic Ticino, when Breguet joins the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon, gets caught with explosives in Haifa, and becomes the first non-Arab to be arrested for terrorist offenses in Israel. After he emerges from 7 years in a high-security prison, he seeks out one of the most notorious terrorists in history – the legendary «Carlos the Jackal» – to become one of the key figures in his organization before mysteriously disappearing in 1995.
Breguet’s story is told within the historical context of the turmoil in the Middle East and Switzerland’s entanglement in this era-defining transnational conflict.