A naive young American Billyand his girlfriend Susan ( Irene Miracle ) are on vacation in Turkey, trying to smuggle a few kilograms of drugs out of the country and return to the United States. When he was about to leave for his country, airport officials found drugs stuck to Billy on his body. He was caught and imprisoned in a Turkish prison for four years on charges of possession of drugs. There, he was tortured, raped, and forced to enter a cruel state of existence.
Billy and other Americans in jail, Jimmy, Englishman Maxand Scandinavian Erichmade friends, most of them The man was arrested for drug smuggling. When he was about to be released from prison and unreasonably commuted to life imprisonment, he decided to escape. He found that the only way to escape from prison was through death or the "Midnight Express", and Max stated that the train did not run here. But in the end Hayes succeeded in breaking out of prison. He crossed the Turkish border into Greece and returned to the United States. This was the first time he had returned to his country after nearly six years of imprisonment
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