Doctor Bartolo found Omar, Tunisian migrant stranded on Lampedusa’s coast. Despite the ongoing burden of death at sea, he offers Omar a family, a home and a job in the local detention centre. Around the same time also Adam, a 16-year-old from Ghana, is taken in by a hotelkeeper’s family and works as a valet.Through 2 unique adoption stories, the film helps to experience the search for freedom of both the Lampedusiani and its newcomers.