Sihame, 18, became a victim of ‘exposing’: A video of her having sex with her ex-boyfriend was posted in a private expose group and then quickly spread. As a result, Sihame was pilloried both online and offline. A year later, when Sihame arrives back home from juvenile detention, she still cannot walk the streets without being terrorised. Her chance of a normal life seems to be gone forever. Sihame sees only one way out: to take revenge on the boys responsible for exposing her. She takes back her power with brute force. The series was very successful for the NPO VOD platform and attracted a lot of younger viewers. The script was written by a team of female writers. One of them, Lila Sahir: ‘When has there been a Dutch series in which a woman takes revenge? Never. It was a kind of fantasy to be able to do this to people who have done something so terrible to someone. Of course you never do something like that in real life, but in this way we did a good job of depicting the feeling of powerlessness of expose victims; we also wanted to focus not on ‘oh how bad for Sihame’, but on ‘how bad that these guys are doing this’. The series is quite intense. We did that so people talk about it. I especially hope that this reaches the boys’ parents so that conversations are started.’
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