Ghosts of Sugar Land

GHOSTS OF SUGAR LAND is a 21-minute documentary focusing on a tight group of American-born Muslim friends whose close black friend, referred to here as "Mark," converted to Islam in high school to feel more like a part of their group, and then radicalized. After that, he disappeared, revealing later that he moved to Syria from where he espoused jihad on Facebook and other social media platforms. Even though they recognize that "Mark" was alienated and struggling to find his place in life, some of the friends can't accept his conversion to radical Islam and speculate that he's actually an FBI informant just posing as a radical to infiltrate ISIS. One friend says he prefers believing that story to believing that this close friend could espouse "bulls--t" about jihad.