The male protagonist Khaled was a refugee from Aleppo, Syria. His family was all killed in an air strike. Only one sister who went out to get bread for her family survived. He and her sister fled Syria from the Turkish border, but they were separated during the escape. , The male protagonist who came to Finland alone has not given up looking for his sister. He was helped by many well-wishers. An Iraqi refugee who lent him a phone to contact relatives in Syria, a receptionist who helped him escape from a shelter under the watchful eyes of the escorting police after he was convicted of deportation, and homeless people who helped him get out of the rogue of the Finnish Free Army. Surviving in his hands, and the restaurant owner Wikstrom, who finally took him in and helped him make a fake ID out of his own pocket, and Calamnius, Mirja, Nyrhinen, three lovely humans who work in the restaurant.
The film is interspersed with a lot of music, and Khaled enjoys the music played by musicians from all over the world in various situations; the film also filmed many scenes of Khaled smoking with strangers, as smokers handing fire to each other. Music and cigarettes can make people temporarily forget the difference of fortune in the mundane life.
There are also many little humors that make people laugh. The composition and color matching of the picture also have a strong personal touch to the director. I thought it was the same warm ending as "Le Havre", but it has created a lot of brilliance and beauty of humanity. Then there was deep despair.
UNHCR deported Khaled on the grounds that security conditions in Aleppo had improved and there was no apparent physical threat to the local population. However, after being returned to the shelter, the TV news showed that the conflict between the government forces and the rebels in Aleppo escalated, and a local children's hospital was bombed, causing dozens of casualties.
Khaled escaped from the shelter. He was attracted by the open-air band performance and stopped to appreciate it, but he was targeted by the hooligans of the Finnish Free Army. The three hooligans wanted to burn him for no reason because he was a refugee. After Khaled was rescued, the hooligans were ruthless. Threatened: I will kill you next time I see you!
Finally reunited with his sister with the help of kind-hearted people, Khaled encouraged only the two of them in his sister's family to stay strong. He settled in with his sister at Mirja's house, and went back to the place Wikstrom had prepared for him - a storage room in the underground garage, only to be stabbed in the stomach by the Free Army hooligans who had been following him.
At the end of the film, Khaled chose not to tell anyone about his injuries, lying on the beach and watching his sister go to the police station to report her refugee status, with only a terrier who couldn't stay in the Wikstrom Hotel like him. He smiled and stroked the dog. Maybe he thought of the kind people who helped him, maybe he remembered the wonderful music he heard along the way, maybe he was looking forward to her sister's future in this free and equal country? No, probably not, because Khaled should know what the other side of hope is.
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