The Beekeeper of Aleppo

In the B&B, Nuri wakes up and sees that he brought a flower to bed, not a key. The social worker, Lucy Fisher, tells Nuri his asylum interview is in five days in London, along with the Moroccan and Diomande. He thinks he sees planes in the sky, and this overwhelms him, but Lucy tells him they are birds. In the evening, the Moroccan and Diomande practice for Diomande’s asylum interview. Nuri falls asleep and dreams that Mohammed takes him upstairs and opens a door with the key. Behind the door is the hill above Aleppo, at night. Nuri walks through the city, where the market is full of food, to his father’s fabric shop, which is closed. He loses track of Mohammed and sits down to wait for him until sunrise.

Nuri and Afra arrived at Piraeus, Athens at sunrise. They were taken to a camp in an old school and to the family section. The NGO worker that took them there had assumed they had a son. Explaining that they had lost him was hard for Nuri. When he was going to sleep, he recalled how he had been reunited with