Soldiers focuses on the men and women of Operation Barkhane, the French military counter-terrorism campaign in Mali that started in 2014 and ended in 2022. In this gripping French drama about a peacekeeper navigating tensions between her squad and the local population, Pauline Parigot (The Returned) stars as Lieutenant Anaïs Collet, leader of a division deployed to the Mopti region. Caught between the actions of hotheaded sharpshooter Julien Ravalet (Louis Peres, Germinal) and by-the-book squad leader Martial Mendy (Birane Ba, Transatlantic), Anaïs walks a fine line between fulfilling her mission, safeguarding the troops under her command and respecting the lives of the Malian civilians caught up in the conflict. Written by Thibault Valetoux (Paris Police 1900) and Frédéric Krivine (A French Village) and directed by Jean-Philippe Amar (A French Village, Spiral), Soldiers is a contemporary war series which offers a very human look at a complex geopolitical situation with no easy answers…