Lawand is a deaf 5-year-old boy from Iraq whose extraordinary family goes to great lengths to move to England and enroll him at the Royal School for the Deaf Derby. There, he learns British Sign Language (BSL) and begins to blossom. But will the British government allow Lawand to stay and continue his education? Filmmaker Edward Lovelace makes combines a roaming camera with a transcendent score and sound design to envelope viewers in an interior world largely absent of spoken language. – Jaie Laplante
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