The family of a 5-year-old deaf child named Lawand who immigrates to the UK is followed in this documentary as they look for a means to communicate with him. There is optimism at a deaf school.

The film's director, Edward Lovelace, acquired British Sign Language in order to create this documentary about a kid who is learning to communicate for the first time. That makes sense given that the entire movie serves as a reminder of the value of interpersonal contact and how similar we all are on the inside.

Lovelace is most known for his meticulously studied picture of singer Edwyn Collins' stroke recovery, The Possibilities Are Endless. In this instance, he also gets up close and personal with a regular family that underwent an amazing trip in order to speak with their younger son. Lawand was born profoundly deaf in a Kurdish region of northern Iraq, where at the time there were no facilities for teaching deaf children. His family escaped to the UK out of desperation, where they received aid from the Royal School for the Deaf.

As he gains proficiency in British Sign Language, Lawand develops into a bright, content child with a passion for football who runs through idyllically framed, sun-drenched meadows. He begins to interact with his family, especially his brother Rawa, and makes friends in his class. But hanging over all of this is the terrible, constant danger of deportation by the adversarial government.

Lovelace implicitly criticises the current government's inhumanity callous this way by giving the refugee, a political football that has been around for a while, a human face. This can't help but make a larger point by simply illustrating the fact that people leave their homes out of a serious need for assistance rather than out of choice.

But rather than being a political manifesto, this is a moving depiction of a small boy discovering a world he had previously been cut off from. Lawand and his family discuss what it means to them to be able to speak and the opportunities that have opened up for him via voice over and sign, the latter of which being subtitled as the camera cuts away much like every other voice in the movie. Together with his exceptional teachers and classmates, deaf and hearing people get a profound and delightful understanding of one another.

A wonderfully framed, personal, and moving tale about hope and discovery as well as the power of communication regardless of the obstacles that stand in our way.