What’s the story?The series follows main character Sofie, as an Australian citizen struggling with mental health issues who is detained after fleeing a cult.As with many Netflix series, this is based on a true story.Stateless loosely chronicles the life of Cornelia Rau, an Australian-German woman who, fifteen years ago, was unlawfully detained for a period of ten months between 2004 and 2005 as part of the Australian Government's mandatory detention program.Like her on-screen version, Rau was also a flight attendant running from a cult.In the series we meet Sofie pre-detention centre - as a career woman who gets sucked into a cult before escaping her family to join them.She lies about who she is and gets caught by the police before ending.
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