Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Professor Walter Vale is sleepwalking through his life. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a lecture, Walter is surprised to find illegal immigrants Tarek and Zainab living in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam with nowhere else to go, Walter reluctantly allows them to stay.
Professor Walter Vale is sleepwalking through his life. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a lecture, Walter is surprised to find illegal immigrants Tarek and Zainab living in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam with nowhere else to go, Walter reluctantly allows them to stay.
Character actor Richard Jenkins takes center stage in this compelling character study: charting the awakening of a withdrawn and inchoate man upon his arrival to diverse, multicultural Manhattan. From Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), an understated yet profound profile of immigration in post-9/11 America.