About the documentary

Synopsis

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Can a shelter become a prison? “We cannot leave the camp, neither go back to our country nor prosper”. At the same time, can a shelter become homeland? "In this place I grew up, studied, worked and became father. I feel home". This is a contradiction faced by the refugees of the largest camp in the world, Dadaab, in north-eastern Kenya.

This is the case of Omar, Hassan and Mohamed, three Somalian young men who arrived to Dadaab in 1991, when the war started in Somalia and the camp was created. Their memories of their previous lives are reduced to some blurry images. In these two decades, they have become part of an incipient middle class, but despite that, their aim is to get one of the prized visas to start a new life in another country. While they think of leaving, 6.000 people arrive every month from Somalia. N-0 is one of the areas where new arrivals are settled and Mohamed Alí is its leader. For them, the camp means safety, but restarting life there is difficult too.

A few of them leave, a lot arrive, all of them “hoping the best but prepared for the worst".​