synopsis

At first glance, Yosef is a typical American teenager. He’s unsure if college is the right path, works a restaurant job to help his family, and he carries the quiet, persistent hope that his life might hold something larger.. However, he was born in Baghdad and fled with his family to Egypt after the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2004. He was four years old. Of all places, they received asylum in Louisville, Kentucky. Now, as his younger sister Azraa travels to Egypt, Yosef finds himself unsettled. Her journey reopens questions he has long kept at bay: Where does he belong? What does it mean to build a future in a place shaped by the same forces that displaced his family? Is the life he is living truly his own—or simply the safest one available?