A Syrian refugee Amir Al-Masry joins others on a remote Scottish island to wait and wait... His brother is fighting in Syria, his parents are struggling in Turkey. Fellow immigrant Vikash Bhai has been there three years. Ola Orebiyi and Kwabenah Ansah are pretending to be brothers. Sidse Babett Knudsen and Kenneth Collard are .. trying to teach them to fit in.
A quiet, formally photographed and slow film in which not much happens, with the highlight his eventual playing of the oud at the end, where the film stretches out from 4x3 into widescreen. (There, though, I'm not sure why it goes into the strange music of the film rather than just staying on the music of the oud.)
An interesting film, not without its little laughs.
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