No Man Is An Island

Doctor Bartolo found Omar, a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant stranded on Lampedusa’s coast. Despite the ongoing burden of death at sea, he offers Omar a family, a home and a job as an interpreter in the local detention centre. Around the same time also Adam, a 16-year-old from Ghana, is taken in by a hotelkeeper’s family and works as a valet. Both boys have been lucky. Or haven’t they? Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean Sea? Through 2 unique adoption stories, we experience... Voir plus