‘OPENING One World @Brussels’

Adam and Omar are young men thrust by fate on the shores of the Italian island of Lampedusa. A lifebelt was thrown to them by two Italian families, who have been caring for them for several years. Omar, from Tunisia, works at a centre for refugees, and Adam, from Ghana, cleans a family hotel. Every day they try to put distance between them and the lives they left behind, to which they never intend to return. But finding their place in a new environment, which for many migrants is only a stopping point on the way to the continent, is harder than they imagined. They know that their journey will not end on this island. They must find the courage within themselves to start all over again elsewhere. The film, rich in visual metaphors, is a moving and personal parable about people building a new home.