Again children in the shadow of death – but these shall live! Werner combines two extremely different theatres of flight and misery: the mountainscape near Oujda where refugees from the Algerian War cross the border to Morocco for safety and respite, and Hong Kong, which was dealing with hundreds and hundreds of thousands escaping the famine caused by Máo’s Great-Leap-Forward policy. The contrast is striking: here the vast, sundrenched emptiness, there maddeningly crowded streets. Help comes in different ways – but it does come. The film’s sponsor, the Swedish chapter of Save the Children International, will certainly try its best.    

Olaf Möller and Jon Wengström