When director Antonio Cuadri read the eponymous novel he now adapts, he felt a window "opened in a desperate cry for solidarity". In an emotional odyssey from the forgotten streets of 1980s Togo to the edges of Europe, this moving drama tells the story of an orphan and street child-turned-petty thief from a West African city. The journey from his birth to finding an adoptive family is marked by his time at the Ciudad de los Muchachos orphanage and the support of a Spanish missionary. This moving tale gives a face to the statistics and humanises migration, featuring an anonymous hero, le père Antonio, "a true revolutionary, still remembered by thousands of homeless children in Kara, to whom he gave a dignified life".