Aisha (Letitia Wright) is a young woman who stutters but is deliberately composed otherwise. “My name is Aisha Osagie,” she says into the phone. “I have to go home for an emergency funeral. I… I need help with that.” The voice on the other end is pleasantly neutral. “Okay. Could I get your registration number, please?” Moraya was alive days ago, terrified and in hiding but full of faith. Aisha is about to hear what she already knows. Attending her mother’s funeral would require Aisha to return to Nigeria voluntarily, and that would mean the withdrawal of her appeal for asylum in Ireland. Her steady downward gaze – her control – begins to fracture. But at the first accommodation center, Aisha meets a young security guard named Conor (Josh O’Connor), and a relationship develops in stolen glances and nights in the kitchen until Aisha is forcibly relocated. Thrown into another survival situation, Aisha wants control. She wants to reveal herself to Conor, though warning him off is also in the cards.
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