A flimsy boat, overloaded with migrants, is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean. Syrian teenager Amir is the only survivor. He is befriended by a Greek teenager and together they attempt to evade the soldiers who patrol the island. This story behind the headlines is told with great compassion for all involved. What drives people to leave their homes and try to reach another continent and how should the rest of the world treat them?
Through the small slit in the floorboards near where he sat, Amir could see them without seeing them. No more than a thin and rotting deck and a few feet of air separated him from the men and women whose panicked shouting shook the Calypso’s stomach. He felt the breath of them against his cheek, the heat of them, of bodies constrained and blinded. Still, in the black of night he could not see them.....
