Refuge

Refugees are captured by border patrol officers as one woman escapes to find herself surviving on her own in a foreign land.

Cast

Dima Mawas

as Leena

Timothy Patrick Quill

as Abbot

Brian Flaccus

as Nikolas

Aya Farhoud

as Yasmin

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