Produced by triple Academy-Award winning Passion Pictures and Netflix, this is the story of one of the wildest characters in the Parisian underworld and the extraordinary better-than-Hollywood heist that he managed to pull off.

This is the incredible true story of Israeli-French career criminal Gilbert Chikli who in 2015 pulled off the con of a lifetime: scamming an estimated €80m from wealthy victims around the world, over two years, armed only with a silicone mask, a telephone and a Skype account. Deploying a devastatingly-accurate impression of France’s defence minister, Jean-Yves le Drian, Chikli persuaded some of the richest and most powerful people in the world to willingly wire millions of Euros to him. They thought they were coming to the aid of French hostages but this was a heist... and Chikli’s weapon of choice was his voice.

Combining the playful audacity of Catch Me If You Can with the extreme personalities of Tiger King, this true-crime feature doc takes us inside a stranger-than-fiction crime caper: revealing a cautionary criminal tale for the Zoom generation, a dark and riveting portrait of an inscrutable career criminal, and a telling insight into the psyche of the French patriarchy and aristocracy.

With exclusive access to new, unheard recordings of the Fake Le Drian scam, unseen archive, and a stellar cast of interviewees from within Chikli’s inner circle, we’ll discover this unbelievable heist from the inside out.