In the months after the November 2015 Paris attacks, three reporters for CBC's the fifth estate fan out across Europe and Turkey to trace the fallout. Adrienne Arsenault works a Belgian neighborhood that produced several of the attackers, asking residents and police why the same streets keep turning up in terrorism investigations and why authorities have struggled to stop it. Gillian Findlay is in Istanbul with the family of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose death on a beach became a symbol of the refugee crisis, as several relatives prepare to resettle in Canada. Mark Kelley reports from Calais's Jungle camp, home to roughly 6,000 refugees, then sits down with far-right leader Marine Le Pen as she builds a campaign against Muslims in the attacks' aftermath. The three threads, radicalization, displacement, and backlash, run in parallel rather than converging into one argument, leaving France's choice about its own identity as the open question the film sets down and does not resolve.