50th Locarno International Film Festival

In a new, brilliant style the film dramatizes the powerful experience of a foreigner’s reception into a new society. It demonstrates the importance of tolerance and understanding between different cultures in opposition to discrimination and violence.

This film shows us how pardon is essential to peace. Coming to terms with its own history is a necessity for a people’s future. The path to freedom and the building up of the community needs a full awareness of one’s situation.