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Xhafer is from Kosovo, works for a pharmaceutical company, his wife, Nora is German and has recently become a third-time mother. She is trying to write her PhD thesis and return to university life between one breastfeeding and the next. She cannot count on her parents' help, as they do not accept her husband, a foreigner from Eastern Europe. Xhafer experiences the resentment of his in-laws every time he meets them and this feeling translates into his relationships with others, especially his colleagues at work. He believes that he was deliberately removed from the mailing list for a new project, another time someone mislead him so that he could not present a prepared paper, someone else blocked his access to research data. All these instances are evidence of bullying, the cause of which, he believes, is his parentage. One day, when he finds a dead rat on the gate of his house, he decides to act.
The brilliant film by Visar Morina, who, like his protagonist, comes from Kosovo, is a story about the experience of immigration and the feelings that usually accompany it: loss, rejection, insecurity, lack of social acceptance or alienation. Xhafer is the opposite of a typical immigrant - he has achieved success and become an assimilated member of his new society. However, negative emotions still accompany him in his daily life. The filmmakers pose the important question of to what extent successful integration depends on the conditions created by a country's social policy and to what extent on the subjective feelings and sensitivity of the immigrant.
