Stateless: Netflix’s hard hitting new series and the powerful story behind it
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