Fundamentally, this is a beautifully written but hard to bear, heart-rending and thought-provoking love story.
Sami and Hadi meet and fall in love while living in the United States. Fleeing war and believing they have secured a better future where they can live, study and work safely, they marry and are expecting a child. Returning from his father's funeral in Syria, they suddenly find themselves caught up in the recent escalations of immigration politics with horrifying consequences.
Lyrically and viscerally elucidates the horrendous experience and repercussions of being swallowed up by the system and deported from your legitimate home. Interwoven with a parallel thread relating to the migratory behaviours observed in birds and the huge number of lives lost as a result of various hostile factors they encounter, echoing arbitrary nationalist policies and the profound human cost.
Sami and Hadi meet and fall in love while living in the United States. Fleeing war and believing they have secured a better future where they can live, study and work safely, they marry and are expecting a child. Returning from his father's funeral in Syria, they suddenly find themselves caught up in the recent escalations of immigration politics with horrifying consequences.
Lyrically and viscerally elucidates the horrendous experience and repercussions of being swallowed up by the system and deported from your legitimate home. Interwoven with a parallel thread relating to the migratory behaviours observed in birds and the huge number of lives lost as a result of various hostile factors they encounter, echoing arbitrary nationalist policies and the profound human cost.