Mahdi Fleifel went back to the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon to visit his friend. When he arrived, thousands of Palestinians have just taken to the streets to protest against discriminatory measures by the Lebanese government. A sociological meditation on the different “exits” that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.

Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt. Over the course of a conversation with an understanding friend, he analyses, deconstructs and interprets the meaning of his choice to publicly support the cultural boycott of Israel.

Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.

Reda's dreams of escaping the Palestinian refugee camp ended in failure. He returned with a heroin addiction to life in a camp, being torn apart. Against all odds he decides to marry his childhood sweetheart; a love story, bittersweet as the camp itself.

In 2010, Abu Eyad and other young Palestinian men from the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon travelled with smugglers through Syria and Turkey into Greece. Like so many other migrants, they came looking for a way into Europe but found themselves trapped in a country undergoing economic, political, and social collapse.

An intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon.