A child soldier, craving heroin, with a Kalashnikovs in hand has been involved in more than fifty ISIS wars and conflicts. Balanche is among the first child soldiers to tell his stories and observations of one of the most terrifying wars in the world in full detail, along with his four other companions in THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT. At the age of twelve, he fled home after an insurgent attack taking shelter in a religious school in Pakistan. And at the age of thirteen was recruited by local liaisons.