After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral.

Where broadcasters scaremonger about refugees, Palestinian-Danish filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel finds the humanity behind reactionary headlines. Empathetic but not sentimental, thrilling but never unnecessarily gritty or tawdry, this spin on the difficult dream of migration is gripping and real.