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Offshore detention centres. Since 2013 asylum seekers who reach Australian waters by boat are imprisoned indefinitely.
This is what faces Omir and Tarek and drives them underground.
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The sea, a paradoxical force of destruction and renewal.
An image by artist and asylum seeker Abbas Abboud, "Man on Nauru," and the cove at Era Beach.
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The idyllic setting of the shacks requires the characters to test their resourcefulness.