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"On both sides of the abyss" relates the trials of Amina Rifa'ee, a young Syrian woman that refused to marry her father business associate and was sent to study in London School of Economics. Her loneliness drives her to the arms of Murad the Libyan that introduces after a relationship of several months to Kenneth Collins the Beirut American embassy's press attaché. The latter takes her with him to Beirut to train her as secret agent, which would the Israeli Mossad in Damascus, without being aware to it. She's caught by the Syrian internal security service and agrees to become a double agent to atone for her treason instead of arrest, torture and death.