Between January and June 2023, the Department of Integration denies accommodation to one thousand four hundred international protection applicants. Some homeless asylum seekers begin a protest, along with a group of left-wing activists. They also set up camp on Sandwith Street, Dublin 2, where a number of the asylum seekers begin to live.

In the film we meet three of the protesters: Simon, Hasiballah and Sami, two of whom fell victim to the restrictive turn in Swedish migration policy before coming to Ireland. Hasiballah lived in Southern Sweden for eight years where he worked at a factory. Sami became the centre of a prominent media debate in 2009 about Swedish extraditions. Both face a return to danger if they aren’t granted leave to remain in Ireland.

As the days and nights pass, Simon, Hasiballah and Sami become targets of far-rightintimidation, and ultimately have their homes burned down. Arson has become an increasingly common weapon employed against property used to accommodate international protection applicants.

The film is an intimate look behind one of 2023’s biggest news stories. Harvey’s camera humanises the people the far-right work so hard to dehumanise. The audience gets a unique insight into life at the camp before it was destroyed, as well as an insight into the tactics of the increasingly violent far-right, who just months after the film takes place, instigated the Dublin Riots of November 2023.