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Synchronicity
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(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2nd Jul, 2020 11:23:05 AM
Could that be Incendies?
The movie is like half flashbacks, half present day. In the flashbacks, during a violent conflict against non-Christians, a woman travels around the country trying to find her son that she hadn't seen since he was very young. In the present day, her daughter or some relative is trying to figure out what happened to her.
There's a part where she's riding the bus, but it suddenly gets shot up by terrorists. Only the MC and another woman and her young son survive, and the terrorists are about to set the bus on fire. The MC claims she's Christian because she has a rosary and tries to save the other woman's son by claiming he's her son, so the terrorists let them go, but the young son breaks out of the MC's arms and runs back to his mom on the bus while it's on fire and dies (or the terrorists shot him as soon as he reached the bus, I can't remember). The MC falls to her knees, devastated, while the terrorists leave.
In a later part, the MC gets captured by terrorists and she sings to herself while she hears other women prisoners getting raped and tortured.
The plot twist is that the MC was raped by her son, and that was how her daughter was conceived.