the movie who are in a half years iranian refugee roosted charney has been living in limbo on a remote specific an oil and he was sent there by australia after he tried to reach its shores by boat. for art. it is a prison it was a prison. even worse than a prison because. the prisoners in or around the ward nobody porcher them you really see it as torture yeah of course you know it is a systematic torture. was a journalist in iran publishing stories promoting the kurdish language and culture after colleagues were arrested and accused of undermining the iranian state who chani feared he'd be next he fled aiming for australia. tens of thousands of others have gone before him thanks smugglers to take them across the sea from in the knees yet to the australian territory of christmas island between two thousand and nine and twenty thirty more than fifty thousand people have made similar journeys most of them ultimately were allowed to settle as refugees in australia but in australia people were alarmed at the growing number of refugees coming by boat they watched horrified as some boat sank