Future Imperfect

<p>IT'S 2050 A CHANGED WORLD and the River Rhone has flooded the town of Arles in France. Helen and Isha leave to join their daughter and eleven-month-old granddaughter Ayo in England.</p><p><br></p><p>In Calais Isha who has Ugandan-Asian ancestry is told that new rules mean she will be immediately deported if she crosses the Channel. Faced with a terrible dilemma Helen chooses to stay with her. Homeless and stateless they seek refuge in a friend's Swiss mountain chalet but to get there they must avoid main roads and immigration checkpoints. They decide to walk along the Via Francigena an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to</p><p>Rome now also the preferred escape corridor for climate refugees fleeing north.</p><p><br></p><p>Jana resolves to follow them but this is not a simple decision. The family communicates whenever and however they can while battling exhaustion terror and the virulent xenophobia of people struggling to protect their increasingly scarce resources.</p><p><br></p><p>Their journey does not end in Switzerland ...</p>