Your ex shows up mid-nuclear crisis. Diplomatic immunity doesn't cover heartbreak.
5.044 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestBetrayals, pressure, and ultimatums. Taking advantage of a football match, Alexandra plays her last card to rescue Sanjabi from the clutches of the Iranian regime.
Geneva, April 2015. In the hushed corridors of a luxury hotel, high-tension international negotiations get underway between the United States and Iran, suspected of secretly developing the atomic weapon. Alexandra Weiss, head of the Swiss diplomatic mission, is trying to maintain a fragile balance between the parties operating behind the scenes. The unexpected arrival of her former love, Payam Sanjabi, an Iranian engineer whose life is under threat, will complicate her task dangerously...
Acting
Veerle Baetens carries entire rooms with a single tight jaw.
Direction
Winocour and Bron turn hotel corridors into pressure cookers.
Writing
Dialogue so precise you'll need subtitles AND a breath.
Creators
Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series filmed in the actual Intercontinental Geneva where the 2015 JCPOA negotiations occurred—same hallways, same dread.
Payam's character echoes real Iranian physicist Shahram Amiri, who defected then returned to mysterious death—art imitating espionage.
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