Alles komt goed

Samrawit is a bubbly and ambitious 17-year-old girl from Almelo. As an eight-year-old child, she fled on her own from Eritrea, the world’s most repressive dictatorship. But in the Netherlands, her problems are not over. Learning the language is difficult and making Dutch friends just doesn’t work out. Once again, Samrawit decides to take matters into her own hands. With her own film about her story. If people know who she is and what she carries with her, will they understand her?

Samrawit goes to school, works and looks forward to her further education. There, she hopes to finally get to know Dutch peers too, but to her disappointment, she is again placed in a separate refugee class. She listens to Eritrean and Dutch pop music – especially the song ‘Alles komt goed’ by Jaap Reesema always gives her comfort when she is sad. With her eighteenth birthday, real independence is also approaching. 

To express what she has been through, Samrawit goes to the Netherlands in search of places similar to locations from her past, where she has her 10-year-old sister Muqat reenact moments from her past.