While he fought, he longed for freedom, and opportunities to pursue his own dreams. There was no chance to be free, to have your own government, to see what your future was going to be. He eventually left the army and his country, settling in Sudan. He managed to find a job in a photographer's studio, marry an Eritrean woman, and start a family. Yet freedom continued to elude him.
Nobody's happy living in Sudan.
It's so hot and it's too hard. They limit you. So he filed the paperwork necessary to gain refugee status. After a five-year wait, he and his family boarded a plane that brought them to New York. The following day they were taken to Los Angeles.