Stockholm

A semi-fictional account of the event that resulted in the creation of the term Stockholm Syndrome to describe people who feel empathy and sometimes more for their captors, based on the extraordinary true story of the European city’s 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis that was documented in the 1974 New Yorker article “The Bank Drama” by Daniel Lang. The events grasped the world’s attention when the hostages bonded with their captors and turned against the authorities, giving rise to the psychological phenomenon known as “Stockholm Syndrome.”