darkness

If anything, he boldly foreshadows the darkness just on the horizon, shooting his drama austerely, the weight of inevitable doom hanging over everything.

As night fell on Wednesday the truce appeared to be holding, with UN chief Antonio Guterres describing it as the “first ray of hope for peace amid the darkness of the past months”.

In Iran, conversely, a small minority has taken the whole country hostage, leaving the population with “no choice on whether to choose its own darkness or not.”

"We were using torch lights to try to find our way into the darkness, it was quite a complicated mission," he said.

As darkness fell, the lights were switched off - with only police officers and paramilitary soldiers left behind.