9 Days in Raqqa 2020 Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian Her fight is Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic state of three hundred thousand inhabitants, reduced to a field of ruin after the war An engineer by training, mayor at just 30 years old, immersed in a human world, her mission is to rebuild her city, to reconcile, and to establish democracy there An extraordinary mission A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her In this still dangerous city, she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book