Crash Landing The moving stories of several soldiers battling the daily hell of post-traumatic stress disorders. They are victims of an illness which develops over the course of repeated peace missions, and touches up to 20% of the Canadian Forces. A highly sensitive film which spares neither the state nor civil society.—Anonymous

A sinister evil is eating away at the Canadian Armed Forces. Since 1990, growing numbers of peace missions have substantially increased the incidence of post-traumatic stress. Nightmares, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, anger and physical ailments, are the daily lot of 15-20% of soldiers - a complex syndrome that neither time nor medicine is yet able to cure. Through the poignant testimonies of a few men and one woman, discharged for reasons of health, Luc Cote sheds light on this still taboo subject. In stories of devastated lives and eviscerated souls, "Operation retour" (Crash Landing") reveals the true face of war and its deadly power of destruction. A film of great sensitivity that questions the State and all of humanity.—Paul Lapointe