Eight years later, Bijan Anquetil meets up with Sobhan and Hamid, the protagonists of his previous film La nuit remue. But the immobile and nocturnal journey of the two Afghan refugees is now replaced by the taciturn and solitary journey of Sobhan, whose deportation through a Europe of illegal migrants is followed by the filmmaker.

Breaking the threshold. Accompanying Sobhan on the roads, in the trains or among the various places occupied by the invisible people that are migrants, the filmmaker gradually traces the contours of a liminal and captive territory. Between the vertigo of the road traveled and the pursuit of an asylum so close that it slips away, the film explores this endless transition like an unbridgeable and bitter threshold.

It is in this suspended zone, a tragic wandering between the before and after, that the documentary gesture exhumes from reality the making of an intimate and authentically political image. Like a hidden window on the world, the sharing of fragments of life recorded by the protagonist's telephone transmits the precarious, almost emotional memory of a travel diary erected as a bulwark against indifference and oblivion.

Terence Chotard
Filmmaker

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