The two teenagers on the screen trudging through the endless dunes of the Sahara on their way to Europe were actors.
But to the young man watching the movie one recent evening in a suburb of Dakar, Senegal’s capital, the cinematic ordeal felt all too real.
“This is why they refused to send me money to take that route,” said Ahmadou Diallo, 18, a street cleaner.
It is now showing in African countries, and is hitting close to home in Senegal.
That’s where the two main characters in the movie embark on an odyssey that epitomizes the dreams and hardships of countless more hoping to make it abroad.
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