Captive Women 4

For the German officers seeking to make the troops forget the exhaustion of the front, that train—moving along the railroad tracks—is an eerie hell on wheels. The presence of the women in the cars, rather than suppressing the brutality and decay brought on by the war, makes them all the more visible. Patrice Rhomm’s camera captures, without any embellishment, the darkness that those trapped within this inhuman system are forced to confront. At the most toxic intersection of war and fear, the struggle for survival turns into a breathless tension-filled ordeal.