Cross-border romance may be a bit cliché, but the story told in this film is absolutely moving. Nemo, a Palestinian college student, met Roy, a handsome lawyer, in a bar in Israel, and the two fell in love. In Nemo's country, due to conservative religion, staying in Palestine after the romance is exposed means execution. In a country where his boyfriend is only separated from his home by a wall, although the economically developed, free and open Israel can fully accommodate their love, but in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel revoked his pass due to national security reasons and went around hunt him down. Nemo was driven and ostracized by his own country, and was hunted down and wanted by his boyfriend's country on the other side of the wall. The whole film depicts the development of their relationship immersed in this darkness. In the end, when Nemo was cornered by the arresting police, her boyfriend rushed to divert the police for him and gave Nemo a chance to smuggle him to France. The two agreed to meet again in France when Nemo smuggled to France.
At the end of the film, Roy was locked up for interrogation by the national security, and Nemo successfully boarded the smuggling boat and looked into the distance. The film did not shoot the follow-up story, but I silently hope that such a brave love can have a good ending.
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