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A camera clicks in a Paris café. The woman behind the lens isn't a fashion photographer—she's hunting the architects of the Munich Olympics massacre.

For three years, Sylvia Rafael moved through Europe's fashion capitals as Patricia Roxburgh, a glamorous Canadian photographer whose camera concealed her true purpose. She tracked Black September commanders through luxury hotels, photographed targets at sidewalk cafés, and provided surveillance intelligence that enabled precise assassinations across European cities.

This film reconstructs Operation Wrath of God—the covert campaign that hunted Palestinian terrorists using fashion shoots as cover. We examine how Sylvia's photography skills became her deadliest asset, allowing her to document targets openly while appearing to capture street scenes and architecture.

We trace her recruitment through Mossad training, the construction of her false identity, and the psychological toll of living completely as someone else. We document surveillance operations across Paris, Athens, Rome, and Cyprus—weeks spent photographing men whose deaths she knew were inevitable.

But the operation collapsed in Lillehammer, Norway, when faulty intelligence led to the murder of Ahmed Bouchiki—an innocent waiter killed because he resembled the real target. Sylvia and five operatives were arrested, exposing the operation publicly and forcing questions about state-sponsored assassination and the cost of counterterrorism.

We explore her five years in Norwegian prison, her marriage to the defense attorney who represented her, and the lasting damage from living multiple identities so completely she could never separate who she was from who she pretended to be.

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