To A Land Unknown

 Two Palestinian migrants in Athens plot a route to Germany so that they can set up a restaurant. 

‘How does it feel, ah how does it feel?

To be on your own, with no direction home

Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone’ 

They have not a lot so they survive by robbing people that don’t have a lot themselves. Malik a 13 year old boy attaches himself to them so that he can go to Italy, where his aunty is. They persuade Tatiana, a Greek woman, to take him to Italy. There are then other schemes to make money, taking it from others that don’t have much, and then deal in prostitution and take drugs to take the edge off things. 

‘When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose’. 

These are the people in boats that live in one country that’s destroyed, go to another that’s destroyed, end up with nothing in Athens and then have the carrot of unlimited capitalist wealth dangled in front of them. What would you do? How would you survive? Don’t put your cap or your husk of bread down else it’ll be stolen, I’m not telling you that I would do it.