A dodo, a bird that disappeared 3000 years ago, makes its appearance in Athens in the luxurious residence of a family on the verge of ruin for which the countdown has begun: the 38 crucial and saving hours that separate them from the marriage of their daughter with a rich heir. The boundaries between reason and madness will be tested and the situation will soon be out of control.
Filmed in and around the streets of London, this award winning cosmopolitan drama, depicts the son of a world renowned Iraqi writer facing the aftermath of his father's assassination in Baghdad, his moral dilemma about the publishing of a book he has been writing for five years and his unrequited love for his best friend.
Kamal, a young Iraqi man entering Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, is captured by Bulgarian border police but escapes, finding himself to search for a way out in a seemingly interminable forest, an underworld where rules and laws don’t exist, where he is wounded and chased by Bulgarian migrant hunters. For three days and three nights Kamal must fight for his life through a journey of survival until a final life-or-death confrontation.
Said Mahran fights for his right to remain in Italy, where he was born and raised from Algerian parents, after his visa expires.
