In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside trucks and containers. However, the long journey locked in a container with other families poses a terrible challenge to the boys. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.4/10 | |
Released: | March 28, 2003 | |
Runtime: | 88 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Companies: | BBC | |
Cast: | Jamal Udin Torabi Enayatullah Imran Paracha Hiddayatullah | |
Crew: | Tony Grisoni Michael Winterbottom | |
random000 : Do people actually want to know why the frog is a mystery or how it went blind. Piffle.