SYNOPSIS

As the sun sets over suburban Melbourne, Hazara photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor watches his children play before beginning a long sleepless night revisiting the archive he has avoided for years: haunting footage of refugees waiting in limbo, behind-the-scenes television interviews, photographs that brought him international recognition, and the terrifying boat journey that nearly killed him.

As his family sleeps to the sounds of his blind mother softly singing, Batoor searches through the material trying to decide what belongs in a new film about his life — and what version of the story feels true.

Moving between quiet domestic observation and fragments of a past that refuses to settle, the film unfolds across a single night, ending at sunrise as the household slowly wakes. The documentary is an intimate portrait of survival, memory, displacement and the endless human condition of waiting.