Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. Based on real events, and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents, the work employs the so-called landscape theory (fukeiron in Japanese). The character's paths to radicalism are rendered purely through a series of landscape shots filmed at the locations traversed by the subject: a biography determined not by what the subject did, but by what the subject saw, and one that questions how these landscapes reflect the social and political structures that are the backdrop for a journey of alienation and return.

IS에 가담했다는 혐의로 구속된 무슬림 청년의 이야기를 전하는 이 영화는 그가 프랑스에서 시리아로, 그리고 다시 프랑스로 돌아오게 되는 과정을 추적한다. 실제 사건에 대한 법정 기록을 바탕으로 제작된 작품이다.