A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
Exiled to Cairo, chasing knowledge under foreign skies. The first, bound by poverty’s tight chains, Struggles with grit as he studies by day and dreams by night. In the lecture halls, he meets a classmate — And love, tender and true, blossoms between them. Their families, across lands, bless the union, As music stirs his soul — he sings, And the college stage becomes his first triumph. But the second, lured by life’s temptations, With gold in hand, forgets the path he came to tread. Pleasure consumes him, and promise fades — And failure, silent and cold, becomes his only companion.
When tribal feuds ignite a firestorm of violence, three surgeons unite for peace. Francis grew up with little schooling during the Sudanese Civil War. Ajak is a Lost Boy who has returned to the tribe he fled as a child. Both men are proteges of Glenn, a grizzled, but brilliant American surgeon.
A haunting portrait of five strangers forging fragile bonds amid war and displacement on the Sudanese border.