Baghdad Central is a 6-part crime thriller for Channel 4, written by BAFTA-nominated writer Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom, House of Saddam) based on the novel by Elliott Colla.
Baghdad, 2003. Saddam has fallen and the city lies at the centre of the coalition’s efforts to secure the region. Political insurgents battle while the occupying forces seek to make the impossible possible – with no plan of how to achieve it. In the midst of the chaos, crime and paranoia, Muhsin al-Khafaji, an Iraqi ex-policeman, has lost his home, his wife and his career and is battling to keep himself and his ailing daughter safe. When his desperate brother in-law asks Khafaji to help find his missing niece, Khafaji’s sense of love and duty force him to accept the task. But it quickly becomes clear that his enquiries are not welcome at the university where his niece studied, or in the occupying force’s Green Zone where she claimed to work as a translator. Khafaji and his daughter, Mrouj, are soon convinced there is more to discover than just a missing person.
When Khafaji is arrested and tortured by US forces in a case of mistaken identity, he meets British ex-police officer Frank Citrone who makes an offer he can’t refuse – medical supplies and safety for his daughter – in return for his skills as a police officer in the Green Zone.
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