There are plenty of movies based on true stories these days, but probably none quite as wild as The Red Sea Diving Resort starring Chris Evans. The upcoming Netflix film tells the story of an unusual spy mission: rescuing Jewish refugees under the guise of running a cheesy beachfront resort.

In the 1980s, following the Ethiopian Civil War, a large number of Ethiopian Jews needed to leave Africa and emigrate to Israel, but getting out of war-torn Ethiopia to Israel proved to be a challenge. Activists who supported the immigration of diaspora Jews to Israel, as well as Israeli Mossad agents, formed a plan. The agents were based in Sudan, and they put out a call to the Ethiopian Jewish community with a promise: come to Sudan, and we'll get you to Israel. They called the operation "Operation Brothers," and it's this operation that The Red Sea Diving Resort depicts.