14 Kilometers

Only 14 kilometers between African continent and European continent. (Tangier in Morocco and Algeciras in Spain).
But it's technically farther than literally it is for African people trying to move to Europe, sometimes illegally.
This is a story telling that reality.

A teenage girl in Mari, who is being faced with an arranged marriage with an old man.
She decides to run off to a faraway place.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Niger, a skilled soccer player tries his future as a football player in Europe.

They come together on their way, but seperate during the way of transafrica to North.
Fnally they reunite and reach Europe.

But you have to know the truth that they're only two luckiest persons among who have the same goal as them.


The final scene is, police passes by without noticing them when they're hiding in the bush.

Although they could get over this time around, you could easily imagine they're gonna confront another tense moment or harsh reality anytime soon...

There's one quote from the movie to describe how difficult for them to immigrate illegally to Europe.

"If you could move to Europe by illegitimate way, you could definitely change your own country you're living in."

I think I'm on it.

No matter how much other countries offer help financially , physically or whatever, ultimately it's only people living there that can change the country.

A book above takes Japan and Korea as examples.

Japan is the only country to be attacked by atomic bombs.

But look at its high-speed growth era in 60's.

Korea, they were once converted to Japanese. Now they have Samsung and LG rule the world.

Therefore, according to the book, colonial history can't be the reason for struggling to grow.

We might be able to "help" them to grow, but we can't make them grow...