The film features two stories of refugees on their journeys to the E.U. and it unfolds between Western Europe and the Balkan region. Eritrean refugee Aregai survives the 2013 sinking of a migrant boat off the island of Lampedusa. The final death toll of the shipwreck is never to be known, but 194 bodies were recovered and 368 people were declared missing. After Aregai is rescued by two local fishermen, he finds himself trapped in the broken Italian immigration system and flees underground all the way to Sweden in his quest for political asylum.