the character is based on the left, though not senegalese, from the ivory coast, of mamadou kouassi.ou kouassi, if you can talk about what it means to put your journey into this film that is now nominated for an oscar that will be seen around the world, why you left your country and took this perilous journey to europe? >> as you have already said, thank you very much for this invitation. this film is talking about dream that me and my cousin, we get access -- we learn a little bit about europe. we studied in the books. we found it is important to discover what has been seen to us in television, newspapers about europe, that europe is a country of human rights. the country of dreams come you can achieve your dreams. me and my cousin, we started to travel. the only possibility for us to travel is to cross the desert. for us it is difficult to get a visa to travel, so we took some information from some people. getting a visa is very difficult. even to get an appointment sometimes more difficult. so we decided to cross the desert. when we started the journey, a circle. difficult to go b