Josef is a Jewish boy living in Germany in the 1930s. To escape the Nazi concentration camps, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... Isabel lives in Cuba in 1994. Because their country is being torn apart by uprisings, she and her family set off for America on a raft. They hope to find a refuge there... Mahmoud comes from Syria. In 2015, violence and destruction reign there, and that's why he and his family set off on the long journey to Europe... All three children have to brave terrible dangers on their journeys. But that can't take away their hope for a better tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel and Mahmoud are separated by many decades and thousands of kilometers, there are shocking connections between their fates.