‘A person without parents is an orphan. A person without a country is a refugee,’ explains Nishant, a Sri Lankan refugee when his Russian girlfriend Laura is baffled by the concept of ‘refugee’.
‘Will I reach Canada? My son keeps tutoring me over the phone. Tells me not to say this or that. Nobody tells me what I should say,’ frustratingly vents Kanakalingam, a fellow refugee who must pass off as a Canadian citizen at immigration with a fake passport.
‘Everyone around you is good… It is entirely different and torturous to be without a country. It is the worst form of punishment…They were not that way when they left Sri Lanka,’ advises another refugee, Ambikapathi, a Professor from Colombo.