Home Coming is based on true events of the evacuation of more than 30,000 Chinese citizens from the Chinese embassy during Libya’s period of political and social unrest in 2011.
I won’t give away spoilers: there are many exciting, shocking, gruesome and difficult moments — it almost seems like an over-the-top, made-up Bruce Willis-style action movie — but they turned out to be mostly true representations of events.
900 employees were trapped and caught up in gunfights, and crossed the Sahara Desert to try to reach Benghazi.
The backdrop is the brutal civil war in Libya, where rebel armies, with the help of NATO, overthrew Gaddafi.