2003, four years before Slovakia joined the Schengen Area. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get illegally to Germany through Slovakia, like many others. The border between Slovakia and Ukraine will be in a couple of years one of the most secured borders in Europe, but in 2003 it is still open for smugglers and for people hoping to find a new life in Western Europe. Neither of them have never been to Germany, and they are ready to sacrifice all they have to reach their dream destination.
Aminah, a Syrian woman, flees from her human traffickers in South Tirol. A young couple in a camper van take her with them. However, the young tourist is pregnant so the attempt to smuggle Aminah across the border is a special risk.
Alba, an 8-year-old girl who lives alone with her father, comes out one night to throw away the garbage. In a dark alley, next to the containers, she meets Naim, a South African immigrant. Two different worlds come into contact. Has friendship no age, colour or borders?
A young illegal immigrant crosses the border with a lunchbox full of cash in search of a wealthy American family.
At the end of the year 2015 Interpol warned that there are 30,000 underage refugees wandering through European Union without the awareness of their families and authorities. Those children are in big danger of being kidnapped by so called modern slavers and used for forced labour, beggaring or prostitution.
Complications arise for a man driving refugees across the border when he realizes that one of the refugees in his van appears to have died - which later turns out to be a false assumption.
Wassim is a Syrian refugee who is trying to reach Avignon. Lost in the French countryside of Provence, he meets an old grumpy winegrower who speaks Arabic.
A woman needs to urgently drive her terminally ill father from a German clinic back to Romania. When she gets to the border, she is told she cannot go any further.
Ten-year-old Sil and eleven-year-old Merlijn are about to go on a big adventure: they will visit a refugee camp at Lesbos and stay there for a week. Through their mothers, who both work there, they have heard stories about the children that live there. Now they want to see for themselves. What is it like to live in a camp when you are a child? First encounters such as handing out food and careful greetings soon become playful gatherings and good conversations in several languages. Is this the start of a friendship?
The Other Side is the story of deported musician Jose Marquez and his daughter Susanna who have been separated for almost 15 years but meet every month on either side of the US-Mexico border wall.
Five Ivorian children had to flee when war broke out in the Ivory Coast after the presidential election in 2010. Six years later, the children talk about their hopes and dreams for the future in an animation film that adds colour to the darkest nightmares.
A 10-year-old refugee living in the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp of Calais seizes the opportunity to escape to a better life - whatever the cost...
When Tarik and his father Elias cause an accident while transporting illegal immigrants, Tarik finally gets a chance to gain the acknowledgment from his father he has yearned for, but at a high price - the loss of his own innocence.
Majak, a young refugee set on returning to his mother, finds it difficult to adjust to life in Melbourne after fleeing South Sudan.
Mohamad, Bakri and Mireille explain from different points of view how the war in Syria radically changed their lives and brought them to Barcelona. The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 Ahmed Galai, describes the situation on the Arab Springs and Human Rights, and the international conflict of interests with the war in Syria and the humanitarian crisis of values in Europe.
A beautiful autumn day. A beautiful landscape is slowly covered by faces passing a camera positioned along the Slovenian part of the refugee path. The faces exchange glances with ones on the other side of the camera – the viewers. At the end, when silence returns, only the landscape is left, but it is suddenly completely different.