‘In my country” is an often repeated refrain in this child’s-eye drama about seeking asylum – and it gains greater emotional resonance as we follow the protagonist’s journey of uprooting and homelessness.
Dritan Kastrati is nine when he witnesses the carnage of the Kosovan war: dead bodies, mass graves and guns all around him. In desperation, his parents pay for their sons to be smuggled to Britain: first their eldest, Alfred, and then Dritan, aged 11.
