When the refugee crisis hits Europe, the young Dane Salam Aldeen travels to Greece to volunteer. Salam, himself a refugee who fled civil war in Moldova with his family in the early nineties, finds his calling rescuing refugees from the Aegean Sea. But one night while trying to find a refugee family lost at sea, Salam is arrested and charged with human smuggling. If he is convicted, he might spend the rest of his life behind bars in a Greek prison. In the country where democratic values were born Salam's case will set the course for the future of Europe's humanity.