Rotte, Italia, 2025

Yagoub is a tall, elegant 50-year-old Sudanese man with a calm voice and gentle manner, and he was, first of all, also a political refugee when he left his country in 1989 to escape the Islamic regime. Every day in Turin, Yagoub meets dozens of migrants whom he helps find housing, jobs, studies, and paperwork. Yagoub solves problems, puts lives back together. He also works in Brussels, where he is Vice President of ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles), whose mission is to protect and promote the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Each story Yagoub hears comes from a different country, such as Regina's Nigeria, Hala's Yemen, Berthin's Congo, Liliam's Brazil. Stories that seek a listening ear, but also success stories. While Yagoub helps others, her family is threatened by war in Sudan and is waiting for Europe's only black diplomat to get her out of the country as soon as possible.

There is a phrase I have been carrying around for some time that accompanies my research work: “Between man and citizen there is a scar: the foreigner.”

This documentary film deepens my filmic research journey on migration, stepping into a world of foreigners once again, me and us, a world made of fragments lost on the routes of hope, rebuilt or forgotten to be citizens of a new state.

It is a film of storytelling, a film of defiance, with a struggling hero, who though in a privileged position in the hierarchy of migration, must come to terms with reality in order to bring his family to safety from war. It is a film about helping, listening and acting behind this world. A geopolitical map that comes alive and is told through Yagoub's daily commitment.

Director

Giuseppe Bisceglia

Story

Giuseppe Bisceglia, Francesco Giugiaro

Screenplay

Francesco Giugiaro, Anita Otto

Director of photography

Giulia Scintu

Film Editor

Cristina Monti

Sound

Giovanni Corona