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A Tanzanian student arrives in small-town Finland expecting opportunity, only to confront poverty, isolation, racism, and the weight of a family depending on him back home.
In small-town Finland, Msafiri discovers that the Europe he imagined bears little resemblance to the life he must actually survive. Between precarious work, financial pressure, family obligation, and first love, Fineland traces a young Tanzanian student's coming of age across continents and asks what migration demands from those who leave—and from those waiting at home.
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