Siddig plays Adib, a former Syrian intelligence officer who becomes embroiled in a cat and mouse chase while trying to locate his photographer daughter, Muna, in Damascus.

After an assignment in Greece, Muna takes a detour trip to Syria, where she becomes wrongly accused of espionage and held hostage by corrupt government agents.

That is until he learns that his eldest daughter Muna has gone missing in Damascus, after taking a secret detour to Syria while on an assignment in Greece.

20 years after he escaped Syria, Adib is forced to return to rescue his daughter from corrupt government agents who wrongly hold her captive on the grounds of espionage.

Both a mystery drama and a political thriller, Inescapable is an action-packed film driven by a father’s selfless dedication to his daughter.

[7] After being convinced to forget her planned research trip to Syria, Tomei finds a Syrian woman in Johannesburg to draw influence from and emulates her speech and gestures.

Tomei admits that she became very emotionally involved with Fatima’s role and even took some of her pain home, stating: "This film packs a punch, and I am still reeling.

"[7] Alexander Siddig plays Adib, a former Syrian militant who believes he has escaped his past until he is compelled to return to Syria to rescue his daughter, Muna.

[5] Having been displeased with how the West represents Arab men, through Adib, Nadda hopes to show "the good, the bad, the macho, [and] the vulnerable" all of which we "haven't really seen .

Paul has an ambiguous nature throughout most of the film as he helps Adib locate Muna, but then plays a more active and instrumental role during the final scenes.

[8] When Nadda, a Canadian born-citizen with a Syrian father and Palestinian mother, met with potential Jordanian partners, she was warned against filming so close to Syria, stating: "All they saw was my Arab name.

[7] Despite the stressful time constraint, Nadda revealed that the ambience on set was calm and "a stark contrast from what audiences can expect from the Syria-set film .

[9] Myriad Pictures granted distribution rights to IFC Films in the U.S., Playarte in Brazil, Joy N Content in South Korea, Voxell in CIS, ZDF in Germany, AtlanticFilm in Scandinavia, Three Lines in Benelux, HBO in Poland, Eagle Entertainment in the Middle East, PT Fresto Pictures in Indonesia, Orlando in Israel, and D Productions in Turkey.

[11] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times gave Inescapable a generally negative review, describing the film as a "Canadian nonthriller that plays like a heavily sedated hybrid of Taken and Not Without my Daughter"[12] that is "plagued by clunky action sequences and a porous plot".

[12] Catsoulis suggests that, had Nadda "focused less on espionage and more on inconveniently rekindled passion, her film might have found richer, more rewarding soil to till".

[13] However, he criticizes Nadda for failing to capture the true political climate in Syria, calling the film "soft fiction"[13] that "pales before the hard facts".

This heavy-handed, shrilly melodramatic tale about a former Syrian military intelligence officer who returns to his homeland when his daughter goes missing reps a misfire on every level.