- When the 48-hour-law prevents police to search for an abducted child, a resilient mother is forced to hunt through the perilous streets of Belgrade, despite the effects of her psychiatric medication.
- A war refugee, Alexandra, returns to her motherland two decades after exile, to raise her daughter in the spirit of Serbian culture, only to experience even more horrific dream, the kidnapping of her 5-year-old, Lena. "Kids usually show up by morning" justification for not investigating the case prior to 48 hours passing, gets Alex incandescent with rage, as she speaks to the local police officer. Knowing her daughter's life is at stake, she flies out to the streets of Belgrade, into the maze of terror and unknown, searching for her baby girl. Disorientation and language unfamiliarity don't get her far, however two other kidnappings of Lena's best friends, become her main leads. She collects evidence that make her raise critical questions regarding the dearest people. As she tries to warn her Canadian husband, Stephen, about the discovery, he advises her that misleading paths will result in new episodes of mental distress, just like after her father's death, and that it's best if she takes her prescribed tranquilizers and goes to sleep. The argument escalates bringing up cultural differences and other issues to the surface, that only make Alex realize she's going to fight this battle alone. The knock on the door does not turn out as expected, since Alex encounters her doctor Jelena, with police officers, stating that clinically depressed patients should be treated and hospitalized early. Not following Alex's demand to view a video on her friend's phone, where Lena screams for help, doctors forcefully lock her up in the Psychiatric Ward, where they drug her to the point that she forgets everything she had on her daughter's potential kidnappers. Fighting through the insurmountable obstacles, Alex hopes to find three little princesses, but will her trauma lower the number of kidnappings in Belgrade and have the power to change this inhuman 48-hour-wait law?
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By what name was 48 Hours and 1 Minute (2024) officially released in Canada in English?
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