Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

I came of age just before the war.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

It was a season of abundant water


Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

and it was a peaceful time.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

We were farmers in Somalia.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

Just tilling, farming the land.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

Our fields were green

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

and there was no robbing or killing.

 

TITLE

MADINA

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

It was a little before dawn

when the gunmen came.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

I heard gunshots.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

I looked over the wall

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

and saw my mother shot.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

My wife and I got separated

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

when her mother and

the others were killed.

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

People fled in different directions.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Our children were crying

inside the house.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

I sneaked back inside to get them,

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

thinking the gunmen had left.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

It was too late when I saw

that they were still there.

 

Madina (OS) - SUBTITLE

My little boys were clinging to me.

 

Madina (OS) - SUBTITLE

Three men raped me

 

Madina (OS) - SUBTITLE

while two stood guard and watched.

 

Madina (OS) - SUBTITLE

When they were done with me,

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

I grabbed my children and ran.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

People were scattering like the sand.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

I joined the exodus and

never looked back.

 

TITLE

In 1991, Civil War

broke out in Somalia.

 

The Somali Bantu, many of

them descendents of slaves,

were attacked without mercy.

 

TITLE

Thousands of Bantu families

fled from the violence in Somalia

across the border into Kenya.

 

TITLE

For thirteen years,

they have made a life in

United Nations refugee camps

in Kenya.

 

TITLE

The U.S. is now resettling more

than 13,000 Somali Bantu refugees

in cities all across America.

 

This is the story of

two of those families.

 

TITLE

RAIN IN A DRY LAND

 

TITLE

KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

Kenya, January 2004

 

Narrator (TV)

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A LAND OF DIVERSE REGIONS AND CHANGING CLIMATES, MADE UP OF PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT ETHNIC AND RACIAL BACKGROUNDS, YET WE ARE ONE NATION.  ONE NATION OF AMERICANS.  THROUGHOUT HISTORY, AMERICA HAS OPENED ITS DOORS TO PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, WHO RISKED EVERYTHING THEY HAD FOR THE CHANCE TO PURSUE HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM.  WELCOME TO AMERICA.  THE ROAD AHEAD OF YOU HOLDS MANY OPPORTUNITIES, BUT ONLY YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM.  THIS CONCLUDES PART ONE OF THIS VIDEO.

 

Man in Class - SUBTITLE

That looked beautiful.

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

Are those things in Kakuma?

 

Man in Class - SUBTITLE

No.

 

Woman in Back of Class - SUBTITLE

We felt like we were

already on the plane.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

It's like a fantasy.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

Do you think you'll live that

kind of life in America?

 

Man in Corner of Class (OS) - SUBTITLE

Yes, if it is written, we will go.

 

Man in Corner of Class - SUBTITLE

If not, we'll be stuck here

eating yellow gruel.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

If we go to America

it will be Allah's will.

 

TITLE

ARBAI

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

Before the war, we had a good life.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I was 13 when I got married.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

My husband was 18.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I was preparing breakfast

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

when I first saw the men.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I had just taken the

mangos from the fire,

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

when seven gunmen burst in.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

They demanded everything we had.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

Then they tied up my parents.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

They beat them senseless

and then they shot them.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

My husband jumped over

the fence and ran.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

I grabbed these two

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

and ran with them.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

Khadija was on my back

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

and Sahara was on my neck.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I found my husband again

in the refugee camp.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

The little ones were

born in the camp.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I was pregnant again when my

husband came to me and said

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

he was tired of this hard life.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

He would leave and go

wherever God takes him.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I asked him to stay.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I told him it was a miracle

that we were together.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

He said he wouldn't stay,

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

his hands were bruised,

his back was aching,

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

his feet hurt and he couldn't walk.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

He left me then.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

I don't know where he is.

 

TITLE

ADEN

Madina's husband

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

In Somalia, we Bantu were

not allowed to go to school.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

We were treated like

beasts of burden.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

We are illiterate because of the

subjugation we suffered in Somalia,

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

the torture and discrimination.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

We couldn't even

open our eyes there.

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

But here we are free,

despite the heat and the hunger.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

If Allah permits us to go to America,

we will focus on our education.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

I hope for the best for

my children in America.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

I know they will change a lot.

 

TITLE

ALI

17 years old

 

Ali - SUBTITLE

I don't remember Somalia at all.

 

Ali (VO) - SUBTITLE

In America, I want to study hard,

 

Ali (VO) - SUBTITLE

and also get a job, if I can do both.

 

Ali - SUBTITLE

I want to be a doctor in America

if I can finish my studies.

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

How many of you can write

your names or count 1, 2, 3?

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

Raise your hands if you can.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

You will not be punished

for things you don't know.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

Don't be afraid.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

Please tell me your name.

 

Madina

MADINA ALI YUNYE.

 

Kassim

MADINA...

 

Madina

ALI...

 

Kassim

ALI...

 

Madina

YUNYE.

 

Kassim

YUNYE.

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

Please write Madina on the board.

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

I think you are wonderful.

You are doing very well.

 

TITLE

ADEN

 

TITLE

FOOD DISTRIBUTION CENTER

Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

Wait, wait, wait, sister.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

Careful don't rip the bag.

 

Angry Woman - SUBTITLE

That scale is worthless.

 

Food worker - SUBTITLE

Cool off, cool off.

 

Angry Woman - SUBTITLE

I'm not asking for anything extra,

I just want my share.

 

Angry Woman - SUBTITLE

Not Kakuma's leftovers.

 

Angry Woman - WITH SUBTITLE

BULLSHIT!

Bullshit!

 

TITLE

ARBAI

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

At food distribution I got

maize, beans, oil and salt.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I sell some of my rations

to buy other necessities.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

How else could I get a shilling?

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

How much?

 

Merchant (OS) - SUBTITLE

35 shillings.

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1 (VO)

WHERE DO WE GO?

 

Class (VO)

WHERE DO WE GO?

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1 (OS)

WE SHALL GO...

 

Class (OS)

WE SHALL GO...

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1 (OS)

TO THE SUPERMARKET.

 

Class (OS)

TO THE SUPERMARKET.

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1

WHERE...

 

Class (OS)

WHERE...

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1

DO...

 

Class (OS)

DO...

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1

WE...

 

Class (OS)

WE...

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1

GO?

 

Class (OS)

GO?

 

Aden

I SHALL GO TO SUPERMARKET.

 

Teacher in Kakuma 1 (OS)

AH, VERY GOOD.

 

Teacher in Kakuma 2 (OS)

YOU DIAL 9-1-1.


Teacher in Kakuma 2

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?  WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

 

Teacher in Kakuma 2 (OS)

9-1-1.

 

Teacher in Kakuma 2

WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?

 

Woman

THERE IS A FIRE.

 

Kassim - WITH SUBTITLE

HUNDRED DOLLARS.  WHO HAVE SEEN BEFORE?

Who has seen one hundred dollars?

 

Kassim

ONE-HUNDRED FIFTEEN...

 

TITLE

MADINA

 

TITLE

ARBAI

 

Arbai

SIXTY-FIVE, AND ELEVEN...

 

Kassim

...APARTMENTS, HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS.  APARTMENT BUILDINGS.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

You might live on the 30th floor.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

If I want to have sex with

my wife and she refuses,

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

so then I force her,

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

would that be rape?

 

Man in class 1 - SUBTITLE

No.

 

Man in class 2 - SUBTITLE

No.

 

Man in class 3 - SUBTITLE

No.

 

Man in class 4 - SUBTITLE

No.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Yes, anything that is forced is rape.

 

Woman in class 1 - SUBTITLE

Yes, if she's not willing.

 

Woman in class 2 - SUBTITLE

Yes, it's rape.

 

Woman in class 3 - SUBTITLE

Yes.

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

In America, all forced sex is rape.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

If you beat your children,

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

they might be taken away from you.

 

Young English teacher in Kakuma

WHERE'S MY PEN?

 

Class (OS)

IT IS IN THE CUP.

 

Young English teacher in Kakuma

WHERE'S MY PEN?

 

Khadija (WITH CLASS)

IT IS ON THE TABLE.

 

Young English teacher in Kakuma (OS)

WHERE'S MY PEN?

 

Arbai (WITH CLASS)

IT IS ON THE TABLE.

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

When the plane takes off

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

it will move diagonally.

 

Kassim - SUBTITLE

Then it will level off.

 

Kassim (OS) - SUBTITLE

When you look down, you will see

deep layers of clouds like foam.

 

Man leading song (VO)

WHEN I GO TO AMERICA....

 

African children singing (VO) - WITH SUBTITLE

WHEN I GO TO AMERICA...

When I go to America

 

Man leading song (VO) - WITH SUBTITLE

SEE MY SHIRT...

See my shirt

 

African children singing (VO)

SEE MY SHIRT...

 

Man leading song (VO) - WITH SUBTITLE

IT WAS TORN.

it was torn.

 

African children singing (VO)

IT WAS TORN.

 

Man leading song (VO) - WITH SUBTITLE

WALKING DAY...

Walking day

 

African children singing (VO)

WALKING DAY...

 

Man leading song (VO) - WITH SUBTITLE

DAY AND NIGHT.

day and night.

 

Man leading song (VO)

I WANT TEA AND SUGAR...

 

African children singing (VO)

I WANT TEA AND SUGAR...

 

Man leading song (VO)

SUGAR AND TEA.  WHEN I GO TO AMERICA.

 

African children singing (VO)

WHEN I GO TO AMERICA.

 

TITLE

Every week, several hundred

Somali Bantu leave

for America.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

We just heard that we're

leaving on Friday.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

We are finally on

our way to America.

Aden - SUBTITLE

We are very happy.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

The party we're giving is for

the people we are leaving behind,

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

our Bantu friends,

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

who fled Somalia with us

and shared this refugee life.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

If God permits me to get

to America peacefully,

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

and my eyes and ears arrive in a

place where the breeze is blowing,

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

I will learn how to live there,

how to take my children to school.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

I hope that I can heal myself

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

and find peace of mind in America.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

Only God knows how we survived.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

But we are human beings,

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

we make a home wherever we are.

 

Ali - SUBTITLE

Don't look outside, you'll

be confused by the wind.

 

TITLE

Thirty hours later

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Are those rocks down there?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

No, it's ice.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Is it ice or rocks?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

It's ice that falls from the sky.

 

TITLE

NEWARK AIRPORT

 

Airline Stewardess (VO)

ON BEHALF OF THE CAPTAIN AND ALL OF THE CREW, WE WISH YOU A PLEASANT STAY.  THANK YOU, AND A VERY GOOD AFTERNOON TO YOU ALL.

 

TITLE

Aden, Madina and their

seven children are on their way

to Springfield, MA.

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

Just put your foot there.

 

Ali

IT'S VERY COLD.

 

Barney (OS)

YOU WANT MY SWEATER?

 

Ali - SUBTITLE

You're smoking without a cigarette.

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

Dad, look at that plane way up there!

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

Faaaaar away.

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

You see those bare trees?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

The ice did that to them.

 

Ali

SPRINGFIELD.

 

Warsame

SPRINGFIELD.

 

Ali

SPRINGFIELD.

 

Aden Aden (OS)

THAT'S THE HOUSE OVER THERE, NEXT TO THE CHURCH.

 

TITLE

Jewish Family Service

is sponsoring the family.

 

JFS will provide financial support

and transitional assistance

for the first six months.

 

TITLE

MOHAMUD MIRE MOHAMED

New American Program Coordinator, JFS

 

Mohamud (OS) - SUBTITLE

Aden, I'll take you to the

mosque tomorrow.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

God is great

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

but I forgot my prayer rug.

 

Mohamud - SUBTITLE

You can buy a new one.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

Oh my God, can you find

one here, my brother?

 

Mohamud - SUBTITLE

You can even find prayer beads.

 

Mohamud - SUBTITLE

Here's the trash can.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I learned about that in

Cultural Orientation.

 

Raya

LOOK AT THIS.

 

TITLE

RAYA KATSEN

Caseworker, Jewish Family Service

 

Raya

THIS IS... GO LIKE THIS, AND YOU WASH THE DISHES.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

She needs to show Madina, too.

 

Raya

YOU WILL TEACH YOUR WIFE, YOU WILL TEACH YOUR WIFE.

 

Aden the caseworker

NO, HE SAID, LET US STICK TOGETHER...

 

Bantu in green - SUBTITLE

Aden, we've been waiting for you for

weeks, ever since we left Kakuma.

 

Bantu in blue - SUBTITLE

Aden, seeing you again is like

seeing the first moon after Ramadan.

 

Bantu in blue - SUBTITLE

Everyone follows

the person ahead of him.

 

Bantu in blue - SUBTITLE

Aden, follow us.

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

You will be my goat.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

The goats are the eyes of the sheep.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

If someone arrives even

one day ahead of you

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

they become your eyes and ears.

 

Bantu in blue - SUBTITLE

We are all brothers.

We should watch out for each other.

 

Warsame

DIFFERENT.  IT'S AFRICA.

 

Aden

AFRICA.

 

TITLE

KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

Kenya

 

TITLE

Arbai's family

 

Mukhtar (OS) - SUBTITLE

Are you all ready to go?

 

Mukhtar (OS) - SUBTITLE

Are you excited?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Speak up! Open wide like

when you eat porridge.

 

Mukhtar (OS) - SUBTITLE

Do you know where you are going?

 

Sahara

YES.

 

Anne Makepeace

YOU SPEAK ENGLISH, HUH?

 

Sahara

NO.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

Say Atlanta.

 

Said

ATLANTA.


TITLE

ATLANTA AIRPORT

 

Airport Shuttle PA

PLEASE HOLD ON, THIS TRAIN IS DEPARTING.

 

TITLE

Arbai and her four children

arrive in Atlanta, GA.

 

Airport Shuttle PA

THE NEXT STATION IS CONCOURSE C.  PLEASE HOLD ON, THIS TRAIN IS DEPARTING.

 

Mike Hoffer

CAN YOU TELL THEM, UH, THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE WAITING FOR THEM.

 

TITLE

MIKE HOFFER

Caseworker, World Relief

 

Mike Hoffer

THEY ARE VERY HAPPY THAT THEY'RE HERE.  THEY'VE BEEN PLANNING FOR THEM TO COME SINCE DECEMBER.

 

Airport Shuttle PA

CONCOURSE D.  CONCOURSE D.  THE NEXT STATION IS CONCOURSE B.  CONCOURSE B.

 

Arbai (OS)

SAID!  SAID!

 

Mike Hoffer (OS)

THEY'RE GOING TO STAY WITH THE AMERICAN FAMILY FOR ABOUT A WEEK...

 

TITLE

World Relief is sponsoring

Arbai's family.

 

Mike Hoffer (OS)

...AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO PUT THEM IN THEIR OWN APARTMENT, TEACH THEM ENGLISH, AND GET THEM JOBS EVENTUALLY, SO.

 

Christian man (OS)

THAT'LL BE GREAT. 

 

Christopher (OS)

THERE THEY ARE.

 

Christian man (OS)

OUR WIVES ARE HERE.

 

Christopher (OS)

PERFECT!

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Just go through this way.

 

Khadija - SUBTITLE

Who are those people?

 

Christian man (OS)

THIS IS CHRISTINA...

 

Arbai (OS)

CHRISTINA.

 

Anab (OS)

CHRISTINA.

 

Christian man (OS)

AND THIS IS CHRISTOPHER. 

 

Arbai

OKAY.

 

Christian man (OS)

WE ARE VERY GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE.  THEY ARE GOING TO HELP YOU LEARN SOME THINGS HERE IN AMERICA TO PREPARE YOU...

 

Christian man

FOR LIVING IN YOUR OWN HOUSE, YOUR OWN APARTMENT.

 

Christian man (OS)

THERE IS ONE MEMBER OF THE FAMILY THAT IS NOT IN THE ROOM RIGHT NOW.

 

Christian man

BUT YOU WILL MEET, HER RIGHT?  HER VERY SOON.

 

Anab (OS)

They have a dog.

 

Christian man (OS)

WILL YOUR CHILDREN BE AFRAID OF HER?

 

Arbai

Yes, the children will

be afraid of the dog

 

Anab (OS)

YES, THE KIDS...

Arbai

until they get used to it.

 

Anab (OS)

BUT THEY'LL LEARN.  THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID.

 

Christina

TURN ON THE LIGHT, TURN ON THE HALL LIGHT.

 

Christopher

COPPER, SIT.  SIT.  GOOD GIRL.  NO.  IT'S OKAY.  IT'S OKAY.  GOOD GIRL.  COME HERE.  COME HERE.  SHE'S OKAY.  COPPER, YOU SIT.  SIT.

 

Christina

SIT.

 

Christopher

SIT.

 

Christina

YOU CAN COME PET HER.

 

Christian woman (OS)

HER FEET ARE WET AND MUDDY.

 

Christopher

THAT'S OKAY.

 

Christina

IF YOU WANT TO, YOU CAN.

 

Christopher

THERE YOU GO.  THERE YOU GO.

 

Christina

THERE.  YES.

 

Christopher

YEAH, ALL RIGHT.

 

Christina

DO YOU WANT TO COME HERE?

 

Anab (OS)

THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH HIM.

 

Christopher (OS)

OH, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH HIM?  OKAY.

 

Christina

OH, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH DOGS.  OKAY.

 

Christina

SHE'S GOING TO BE STUFFED.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

We all overslept.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Last night was the first

time we slept in beds.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

So that's why the sun came up

before we woke up.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

The children didn't

want to sleep alone.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

They all wanted to stay with me.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Put down that banana.

You can't eat more than that.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Hello, Aden. This is Arbai.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Where are you?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Springfield? Where's that?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Are you already settled

in your new home?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

We are staying with

some white people.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

We will go to our own

place in seven days.

 

TITLE

KHADIJA

17 years old

 

TITLE

SAHARA

13 years old

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

You're like a cloud that's

heavy with water

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

that I long for.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

You're the ideal person

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

and I adore you.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

You are my medicine.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

I'm trying to forget you

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

because you're not keeping me warm.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

You can go

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

swim off with your love.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Swim off with your love.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

I am also tired of waiting

for my husband.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

He never shows up.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

I'm tired of waiting for you.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Either tell me to get lost

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

or be with me.

 

Arbai and daughters - SUBTITLE

You can go

 

Arbai and daughters - SUBTITLE

swim off with your love.

 

Arbai and daughters - SUBTITLE

Swim off with your love.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

If God gives me more kids

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

why wouldn't I want them?

 

Anab

SHE'S JUST TELLING ME SHE HAD NINE KIDS.

 

Anne Makepeace (OS)

SHE HAD NINE KIDS?

 

Anab (OS)

ONE IS OLDER THAN JIIJA, AND ONE IS OLDER THAN SAHARA.  THE REST DIED WHEN THEY WERE BABIES.

 

Christina

HOW COME THEY DIDN'T COME WITH THEM?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

We got separated when

the war came to our home.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Home, home, home.

 

Arbai (OS)- SUBTITLE

That day, when my

parents were killed.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

We started running and

they ran away on their own.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

I thought we were all together

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

but then I discovered

they weren't with us.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

It was too dangerous

for me to go back.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Bullets were flying everywhere.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

I was afraid of losing the

two children I was carrying.

 

Anab (OS) - SUBTITLE

What are their names?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

My eldest is Ruqiya Mohammed Ahmed

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

and Hawa Mohammed Ahmed.

 

Anab - SUBTITLE

How old was Ruqiya when you fled?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

She was very young.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

She was seven.

 

Anab (OS) - SUBTITLE

I hope you find your children.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

May God help me.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

Think I can reach this?

 

Mainun - SUBTITLE

Now the other one.

 

Mainun - SUBTITLE

I have your scarf.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

You do?

 

Mainun - SUBTITLE

Yes.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

I'm ready.

 

Mainun (OS) - SUBTITLE

Are you praying now?

 

TITLE

SPRINGFIELD

 

One month in America

 

TITLE

Aden and Madina's

new house

 

TITLE

MADINA

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

The kitchen.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Warsame's room.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Ali's over there.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Ali here,

 

Madina (OS) - SUBTITLE

Hassan.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Ali school.

 

TITLE

WARSAME

15 years old

 

Girl at locker

GO PAST FOURTEEN ONCE.  GO BACK TO FOURTEEN.  FOURTEEN.

 

TITLE

ALI

17 years old

 

Girl at locker

IT OPENED, BUT...

 

Maria

MY NAME IS MARIA, AND I'M FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.  I'VE BEEN HERE FOR FIVE YEARS.

 

Thong

MY NAME IS THONG, I'M FROM VIETNAM, AND I HAVE BEEN IN AMERICA SIX MONTHS, BUT RIGHT NOW I'M LEARNING ENGLISH.  AND IT FEELS SO HAPPY WHEN I GET SOME FRIENDS.

 

Warsame - WITH SUBTITLES

I'M WARSAME ADEN KABIR...

I'm Warsame Aden Kabir

 

FROM SOMALIA...

from Somalia

 

AND KAKUMA.

and Kakuma.

 

TITLE

HASSAN

7 years old

 

Abdi's first teacher (OS)

OKAY, UM, KATIA, DESIREE, ABDI, WE HAVE TO RETURN TO OUR SEATS.

 

TITLE

ABDI

10 years old

 

Girl bugging Abdi 1

COME ON.  COME ON.

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

MOVE.

Move.

 

Girl bugging Abdi 1

HE SAID MOVE.  HELLO.

 

Girl bugging Abdi 2

HOW ARE YOU?

 

Girl bugging Abdi 1

HOW ARE YOU, ABDI?

 

Abdi

I'M FINE.

 

Girl bugging Abdi 1

WANT TO GO TO LUNCH?

 

Friend of Hassan 1

HASSAN, HASSAN.  YOU WANT THIS?

 

Friend of Hassan 2 (OS)

HE'S NASTY.

 

Friend of Hassan 1

HE AIN'T NASTY.

 

Friend of Hassan 2

SOMETIMES HE IS.

 

Friend of Hassan 1

NUH-UH.

 

Friend of Hassan 2

AND HE COPIES US.

 

Friend of Hassan 3 (OS)

AND HE'S MY BEST FRIEND.

 

Friend of Hassan 3

HASSAN IS MY BEST FRIEND.  AND I HELP HIM DO HOMEWORK.

 

Friend of Hassan 3 (OS) - WITH SUBTITLE

BYE, BEST FRIEND.

Bye, best friend.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

This is beyond cold.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

I'm freezing.

 

Hassan - SUBTITLE

We'll just put it in the oven.

It will be sweet.

 

Hassan - SUBTITLE

Then everyone will

have a plate of it

 

Hassan - SUBTITLE

and then we will eat it.

 

Taco Bell employee (OS)

CAN I HELP YOU?

 

Abdi

CHICKEN.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Just tell her to give us

a round chicken.

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

They only have small chicken.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

They're waiting. Order.

 

Taco Bell employee (OS)

WE HAVE CHICKEN TACOS, WHAT DO THEY WANT?

 

Abdi

CHICKEN.

 

Taco Bell employee (OS)

IS THAT IT?

 

Abdi (OS)

YEAH.

 

Taco Bell employee

THAT'S A DOLLAR FIFTY-SIX.

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

Come and pay.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Pay without seeing it?

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

Say "show me."

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Who should I pay?

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

Wait until she brings it.

 

Taco Bell employee

THIS IS WHAT IT IS.  THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE FOR CHICKEN.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Let's go.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

What if the chicken

there is the same?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

HASSAN, HASSAN!

Hassan, Hassan!

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

I dare you to go in without me.

 

Hassan - SUBTITLE

Where are we going to roast it?

 

Supermarket PA

JEN TO THE FRONT, PLEASE.  JEN TO THE FRONT.

 

Hassan - SUBTITLE

Mom, please buy this for us.

 

Hassan - SUBTITLE

Mom? Mom?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Take this back.

 

Hassan (OS) - SUBTITLE

Mom, can we take this home?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Is this what you said you wanted?

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

No, it's not that kind.

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

Hassan picked that one.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Oh, God, why did I ever

come with you two?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

How do you know this is a chicken?

 

Abdi - SUBTITLE

It's all chicken right here.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Why is it so cold?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

What they call chicken

might as well be maize.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

What's on it?

 

TITLE

ADEN

 

Mohamud (VO)

SOMALI BANTUS ARE THE REFUGEE GROUP WHO CAME TO THIS COUNTRY THAT HAVE SUCH NEEDS...

 

Mohamud

BECAUSE OF THEIR SITUATION, YOU KNOW?

 

Mohamud - WITH SUBTITLES

NO URBAN LIFE EXPERIENCE.

No urban life experience.

 

NO SCHOOL EXPERIENCE.  NO EDUCTATION.

No school experience. No education.

 

MORE THAN 95% OF THEM ARE ILLITERATE.

More than 95% of them are illiterate.

 

NO JOB SKILLS.

No job skills.

 

THEY NEED A LOT OF SUPPORT.

They need a lot of support.

 

Mohamud

A LOT OF CASE MANAGEMENT.

 

Mohamud - WITH SUBTITLES

WHENEVER HE GETS A LETTER OR ENVELOPE,

Whenever Aden gets a letter,

 

EVEN THE JUNK MAIL,

even the junk mail,

 

HE BRINGS IT TO THE OFFICE AND HE SHOWS ME.  HE SAYS, "WHAT IS IT?"  ALL THE UTILITIES.  EVERYTHING.

he shows me and says, "What is it?"

 

I GUESS WE'LL WAIT UNTIL HIS CHILDREN CAN UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING, AND THEY CAN HELP THEM WITH THE UTILITIES AND EVERYTHING.

I guess we'll wait until his

children understand everything.

 

Omar (OS)

VERY GOOD, EXCELLENT.  BECAUSE, THIS ONE IS ONE WORD, THIS ONE IS ANOTHER WORD.  YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT.  YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I can't get it.

 

Omar

SO DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORD ‘NERVOUS'?

 

TITLE

Aden spends six hours a day

in English class.

 

TITLE

Jewish Family Service will begin

to arrange job interviews when

his English improves.

 

TITLE

ATLANTA

 

Two months in America

 

TITLE

ARBAI

 

Erica

WHAT GRADE YOU IN?  FOURTH.  HE IN FOURTH.  YES YOU IS.

 

Girl in red shirt

I WANT TO BE IN THE CAMERA, TOO.

 

Erica

NO, YOU'RE NOT AN AFRICAN.  YOU GOT TO BE AN AFRICAN.

 

Girl in red shirt

I AM.

 

Erica

NO, YOU'RE NOT.  IS SHE AFRICAN?

 

Girl in red shirt

I AM AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

 

Erica

NO, YOU'RE NOT.

 

Girl in red shirt

I AM.

 

Older boy

SHE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

 

Erica

YOU'RE LYING.

 

Girl in red shirt

NUH-UH.  I'M BROWN.  SEE?  I'M BROWN.

 

Older boy (OS)

YOU'RE BROWN.

 

Erica

EVERYBODY IS BLACK IN THE WHOLE SCHOOL, SO WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

 

TITLE

MAINUN

 

TITLE

SAID

 

Girls' first teacher

FRIDAY'S A HALF DAY.  WHAT CLASSES ARE WE GOING TO?

 

Students (OS)

FIFTH.

TITLE

SAHARA

 

Gelani (OS)

FIVE, NO.  FIRST PERIOD, SECOND, THIRD PERIOD.  FIRST, SECOND, THIRD.

 

Girls' first teacher

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO EAT LUNCH?  FOURTH PERIOD, ‘B' LUNCH.

 

TITLE

KHADIJA

 

Girls' first teacher

LET'S CLOSE THE FOLDER, PUT IT UNDER YOUR DESK.  I'M CHECKING PENCILS.  LET ME CHECK YOUR FOLDERS.

 

Younger Gelani

‘LET ME CHECK YOUR FOLDER.  LET ME CHECK YOUR FOLDER.'  TODAY MY FOLDER NO GOOD!

 

Girls' first teacher

TOO LOUD.  IS THIS VERY GOOD AND VERY QUIET?

 

Younger Gelani

NO.

 

Girls' first teacher

I DON'T THINK SO, LET'S TRY AGAIN.

 

Sahara - SUBTITLE

America is better.

 

Sahara - SUBTITLE

You can focus on your education.

 

Sahara - SUBTITLE

You don't have to

worry about cooking.

 

Sahara - SUBTITLE

You can go to school,

read books, and just go to bed.

 

Sahara (VO) - SUBTITLE

When I turn 18,

nobody can boss me around.

 

Sahara (VO) - SUBTITLE

I can go anywhere I want.

 

Sahara (VO) - SUBTITLE

I'm free.

 

Sahara (VO) - SUBTITLE

This is America.

 

Sahara (VO) - SUBTITLE

We have to adopt American culture.

 

Sahara (VO) - SUBTITLE

I don't need my culture here.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

If you abandon your culture,

what else do you have?

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

If kids stray from their culture,

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

they need to be reminded

who they are.

 

Arbai - SUBTITLE

They will settle down.

 

Arbai (OS) - SUBTITLE

If they follow American

culture, they're lost.

 

TITLE

SPRINGFIELD

 

Three months in America

 

Boys' math teacher

NUMBER SIXTEEN, ‘Y' EQUALS ‘4X' PLUS SEVEN.  THE SLOPE IS FOUR.

 

Boys' math teacher (OS)

SO, WHAT IS THE NEGATIVE RECIPROCAL OF THIS?

 

TITLE

ALI

 

TITLE

WARSAME

 

Boys' math teacher (OS)

NUMBER SIX?  THERE'S A PATTERN.

 

Warsame (OS) - SUBTITLE

Ali, have you done problem eight?

 

Ali (OS) - SUBTITLE

I don't know.

 

Ali (OS) - SUBTITLE

Where is number eight?

 

Warsame (OS) - TITLE

Right above the teacher's shoulder.

 

Boys' math teacher (OS)

IF I FLIP IT, I GET ONE FOURTH, AND IF I CHANGE THE SIGN, THE ORIGINAL SIGN IS POSITIVE, SO IT'S NEGATIVE.

 

Boys' math teacher (VO)

I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AS FAR AS SKILLS ARE CONCERNED, BUT I THINK IF THEY HAD A TRANSLATOR IT WOULD, IT WOULD HELP A LOT.

 

Boys' math teacher

IT'S NOT FAIR TO THEM, AND I THINK IT'S, IT'S KIND OF HARD ON ME BECAUSE I FEEL BAD.  I DON'T REALLY, I'M NOT REALLY SURE HOW TO GRADE THEM.  AND I THINK IF THEY ARE PLACED IN A CLASS LIKE THIS, THEY SHOULD HAVE A TRANSLATOR.

 

Boy's math teacher (VO)

THEY HAVE MADE PROGRESS, BUT ALI HAS MADE A LOT MORE THAN WARSAME.  I'LL TELL ALI A PROBLEM AND HE CAN CALCULATE IT IN HIS HEAD.  SO HE CAN DIVIDE IN HIS HEAD, HE CAN MULTIPLY IN HIS HEAD.

 

Boys' English teacher

OKAY, NOW WHAT DOES IT SAY IN THE NEXT SENTENCE?

 

Ali

SPRING... SPE...

 

Boys' math teacher

SPRING, YEAH.

 

Ali

IS ACTION AND ETORY...

 

Boys' math teacher

ENERGY.

 

Ali

ALL DAY.

 

Boys' math teacher

NOW DO YOU PLAY ANY SPORTS?

 

Ali

YEAH, I PLAY.

 

Boys' math teacher

WHAT DO YOU PLAY?

 

Ali

I PLAY SOCCER.

 

Boys' math teacher

OKAY, SO YOU CAN SAY THAT THERE.

 

Ali

I LIKE SOCCER.

 

Boys' math teacher

PLAYING SOCCER.

 

Ali (OS)

‘S'...

 

Boys' math teacher

UH-HUH.

 

Ali (OS)

‘O'...

 

Ali (VO) - SUBTITLE

If I try hard in school maybe I can

get a soccer scholarship for college.

 

Ali (VO) - SUBTITLE

I still want to become a doctor.

 

Soccer player 1

YO, YOUR DADDY'S A KING, RIGHT?

 

Soccer player 2 (OS)

YEAH, NIGGER, HE'S REALLY A PRINCE?

 

Soccer player 1 (OS)

YO, HE'S A PRINCE, DUDE!

 

Soccer player 3

PRINCE, PRINCE OF WHAT, THOUGH?

 

Soccer player 4 (OS)

HE'S AN AFRICAN PRINCE.

 

Soccer player 5

YOU REALLY A PRINCE?

 

Ali

PRINCE?

 

Soccer player 2

A PRINCE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE A SON OF A KING.

 

Ali

I DON'T KNOW.

 

Soccer player 2

YOU DON'T KNOW.  HE REALLY A PRINCE?

 

Ali's friend Said

HE'S SOMALI.

 

Soccer player 1 (OS)

YOUR DADDY'S THE KING OF SOMALIA OR WHATEVER?

 

Soccer player 2

OH SNAP!  THAT'S, THAT'S COOL MAN.  I NEVER, I NEVER HEARD OF THAT BEFORE.  THAT'S CHILL, THAT'S CHILL.

 

Soccer player 6 (OS)

YOU MEAN YOUR FATHER'S THE KING?

 

Ali

YEAH.

 

Soccer player 6

YOU MEAN HE RUNS THE WHOLE FUCKING SHIT, RIGHT?  THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO TELL ME?  YOUR FATHER RUNS THE WHOLE FUCKING COUNTRY?

 

Brazen hussy 1

AT FIRST THEY WASN'T FRIENDLY.  WE HAD TO BREAK THEM IN.

 

Brazen hussy 2

YEAH, WE HAD TO TALK TO THEM.

 

Brazen hussy 1

WE'D BE ON THE STAIRS AND THEY WOULD WALK BY US WITHOUT SAYING "EXCUSE ME".  WE HAD TO TEACH THEM THEY HAVE TO SAY "EXCUSE ME" AND "HI".  SO NOW WHEN THEY SEE US, THEY BE LIKE "HI".  "HI."

 

Brazen hussy 2

AND THEIR FRIENDLY.  WHERE THEY'RE FROM, THEY WENT THROUGH A LOT, LIKE THEY, A LOT OF KILLING AND MURDERING.  YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT, THAT'S ALL THEY'VE SEEN.

 

Brazen hussy 2 (OS)

THEY'RE TEACHING US THEIR LANGUAGE.

 

Sanka (OS)

"NAPENDA".  SAY "NAPENDA".

 

Brazen hussies

"NAPENDA".

 

Sanka (OS)

"NAPENDA".

 

Brazen hussies

"NAPENDA".

 

Sanka (OS)

IT MEANS "HELLO."

 

Brazen hussies

"HELLO".

 

Sanka (OS)

"HELLO".  IT MEANS, "NAPENDA", IF YOU SAY "NAPENDA", I SAY THAT, "UJAMBO."

 

Brazen hussy 2 (OS)

OKAY.

 

Sanka

"THAT'S GOOD".

 

Brazen hussy 2 (OS)

THIS IS DIFFERENT, TOO.  THEY ALL GO GROCERY SHOPPING, BUT IT COULD BE ONE FAMILY.  AND THEY'LL SIT IN THE MIDDLE RIGHT HERE...

 

Brazen hussy 3 (OS)

AND ALL THE DIFFERENT FAMILIES COME AND PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT THEY WANT.  THEY ALL SHARE.

 

Brazen hussy 2

AND ALL OF US, LIKE, THE AMERICANS BE ON THE PORCH, LOOKIN' LIKE, "OH MY GOD."  YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, LIKE...

 

Brazen hussy 3

IT'S UNITY.  IT'S UNITY.  HOW THE UNITY WE WISH WE HAD IN AMERICA.

 

Bantu in orange - SUBTITLE

I need some help here to

take these things up.

 

TITLE

Six months in America

 

Raya (OS)

ALI, YOUR CHECK IS COMING!  YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE IT ON MONDAY.

 

Raya

YOUR CHECK.  MONDAY.

 

TITLE

RAYA KATSEN

Caseworker, Jewish Family Services

 

Raya

IF YOU DON'T GET IT ON MONDAY, GIVE ME A CALL ON THE PHONE.  OKAY?

 

Raya (VO)

THEY RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSITIONAL ASSISTANCE.  IT'S NOT A LOT OF MONEY.  SO WITHIN TWO YEARS THEY HAVE TO FIND THEMSELVES A JOB SO THEY CAN SUPPORT THEMSELVES.  AND I THINK THEY ARE STRUGGLING.  EVERY BILL THEY RECEIVE IS LIKE ANOTHER SHOCK.  UNFORTUNATELY, FOR A FAMILY OF THAT SIZE, THAT HOUSING IS ALL WE COULD FIND FOR THEM.  WE PUT THEM ON THE WAITING LIST FOR SUBSIDIZED HOUSING.

 

Anne Makepeace (OS)

HOW MUCH IS THEIR RENT?

 

Raya

I THINK THEY PAY SEVEN-HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS.  AND THEY ALSO HAVE TO PAY OTHER EXPENSES.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Last month they cut our

food stamps in half.

 

Sala - SUBTITLE

How much is your cash assistance?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

$1050.

 

Sala - SUBTITLE

You pay the rent from it, right?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

There's not enough money.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

We're overdue on all our bills.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

We're paying for the water,

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

the telephone,

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

the electricity,

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

the gas and everything.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

We are totally overwhelmed.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

When you say we have problems,

what can I say?

 

Sala - SUBTITLE

Aden needs to get a job.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Of course. He wants to work.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

It's impossible

because of the language.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

I was a farmer in Somalia.

 

Aden (VO) - SUBTITLE

That's the only job I've ever had.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I know I need to find a way for

my family to survive in America.

 

TITLE

ADAY

13 years old

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

How many are inside this box?

 

Warsame - SUBTITLE

Who can tell?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

It's countless?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

Like grains of sand.

 

Aden (VO)

HOW MUCH?

 

Cashier (OS)

THIRTY-THREE SEVENTY-NINE.

 

Aden

THIRTY?

 

Cashier (OS)

THIRTY-THREE.

 

Aden

THIRTY-THREE?

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

I don't think there's

enough on the card.

 

Cashier

YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN YOUR FOOD STAMPS.  YOU HAVE THIRTY-TWO SIXTY-NINE IN FOOD STAMPS, AND THREE EIGHTY-TWO IN CASH.

 

Warsame - WITH SUBTITLE

THREE?

Three?

 

Cashier (OS)

EIGHTY-TWO IN CASH.

 

Warsame - SUBTITLE

Three hundred dollars

eighty-two cents in the cash card.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

No, there's no three hundred

dollars in cash.

 

Warsame

THREE EIGHTY-TWO.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I don't have three hundred

dollars in there.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

It won't be released until the 14th.

 

Warsame (OS) - SUBTITLE

But that's what she said.

 

Warsame (OS) - SUBTITLE

That's the cash amount in the card.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

She will know soon enough.

 

Warsame - WITH SUBTITLE

THAT'S IT?

That's it?

 

Cashier

YEAH.

 

Warsame (OS)

THANK YOU.

 

Cashier

HAVE A NICE DAY.

 

Warsame (OS) - SUBTITLE

The balance, in cash, is...

 

Warsame (OS) - SUBTITLE

whoaaaa!  Zero!

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

Don't let the door go.

 

Man on phone

HELLO?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Has any money been

put onto your card?

 

Hindi

HELLO?

 

Man on phone - SUBTITLE

No, no, no.

 

Man on phone - SUBTITLE

Nothing has been released

onto the card.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

What is your date?

 

Hindi

HELLO?

 

Man on phone - SUBTITLE

The 8th.

 

Hindi

HELLO?

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

The 8th?

 

Man on phone - SUBTITLE

Yeah.

 

Hindi

HELLO?

 

Man on phone

HELLO?

 

Madina

BYE.

 

Hindi

BYE-BYE.

 

Man on phone

BYE-BYE.

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Bye.

 

Hindi

BYE.

 

Man on phone

BYE.

 

Raya (VO)

EVERYBODY WHO IS WORKING WITH THE FAMILY IS TELLING ME THAT MADINA IS NOT REALLY FUNCTIONING THE WAY THEY EXPECTED HER TO FUNCTION.

 

Raya

MADINA IS JUST SITTING ON THE COUCH, AND ADAY IS DOING ALL THE MOTHER'S DUTY.

 

Raya (VO)

LIKE A LITTLE CINDERELLA SORT OF THING, NOT BEING A CHILD.  I THINK IT'S ALSO AFFECTED ADEN.  BECAUSE SHE IS DEPRESSED, I THINK HE IS SAD.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

All night long my mind is

wandering back to that time.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

How can I ever forget seeing

my own mother murdered?

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

It will haunt me to the death.

 

Madina (VO) - SUBTITLE

The medicine will make you better.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

There must be a way to open it,

but I'm not getting it.

 

Madina (OS) - SUBTITLE

What is this thing

that can't be opened?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

                                                     Get this away from me.                    

 

Madina - SUBTITLE

Why did you hit me with it?

 

Girl bugging Abdi 1

BYE, ABDI.

 

Hassan (OS) - SUBTITLE

Dad, why are you so late?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

What do you mean late?

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I was in school myself.

It's five miles away!

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I haven't even been home yet.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I don't have a car or a bicycle.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I have no idea what is

happening at home.

 

Aden - SUBTITLE

I came straight from school,

and now you say I'm late?

 

Aden (OS) - SUBTITLE

Am I crazy?

What am I supposed to do?

 

Arbai

EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME.

 

Coworker of Arbai's

ALL RIGHT, CLEAR THE WAY, GUYS.

 

TITLE

ATLANTA

 

Eight months in America

 

Job Trainer (OS)

MISS ARBAI WILL BE DOING SOME FLOOR WORK THIS MORNING.

 

TITLE

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES

Job Training Center

 

Job Trainer (OS)

MISS ARBAI, JUST TAKE IT EASY.  RELAX, YOU CAN DO THIS FOR EIGHT HOURS AND YOU'LL BE FINE.  JUST RELAX, YOU'RE FINE, YOU'RE FINE, YOU'RE FINE, YOU'RE FINE.  YOU ARE IN CONTROL.  DON'T LET IT GET OUT OF YOUR HANDS.  JUST HANDLE IT EASILY, AND COME THIS WAY.  TRY AND COME THIS WAY.  TRY AND COME THIS WAY.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

I started working last month.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

They gave me a machine

that makes my kidneys ache.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

It looks like a vacuum

but it's not a vacuum.

 

Arbai (VO) - SUBTITLE

They call it a scrubber.

 

TITLE

SAHARA

13 years old

 

Sahara - SUBTITLE

Pull your pants up!

 

Sahara's friend - SUBTITLE

Oh, that boy.

 

Sahara's friend - SUBTITLE

He was like that in Kenya, too.

 

Sahara (VO)

COME ON GUYS.

 

Sahara

SIT DOWN! BE QUIET!

 

Sahara

COME ON, SAY 'DREAM'.  'DREAM.'

 

Classmate of Sahara's

‘DREAMING.'

 

Sahara (OS)

‘LIFE.'

 

Sahara

‘BUT.'

 

Ms. Webley (VO)

THEY LISTEN TO SAHARA.  WHEN SHE TALKS, THEY LISTEN.  SHE

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