Parlaci dell’opera che presenti al Napoli Film Festival:
In December of 2008 I went back to my home country, Malta, and met with some people involved in a fishing tragedy with shook the island earlier that summer. As I spoke to fishermen, captains of trawlers, the armed forces and many other people who interact with the sea on a daily basis, I came to the understanding that something was happening in the Mediterranean Sea which us on land were not aware of. Thousands of people were not only crossing what is known as 'the cradle of civilization' but many were dying because their distress calls were being ignored. The sacrosanct law of the sea to aid all in the danger was being broken and off our shores was a 'grave of civilization' not a cradle. This was before the Arab Spring and Syrian conflict happened. The way world affairs developed made it all the more urgent to tell this story of a Maltese family, who got caught up in political contexts far beyond themselves, and which begged the question: do we value all human life equally?