Two refugees in America find that their lives are inextricably linked--over time and distance--by the perils of history and a single haunting song.
Moving from Aleppo on the brink of civil war, to Lebanon in the late 1940s, to Havana during the Cuban Revolution, to the suburbs of Washington, DC, The Refugee Ocean grapples with what it means to be an immigrant, shows how wounds can heal, and highlights the role of music and art in the resilience of the human spirit..
A former piano prodigy who struggles to thrive in America--and who has lost part of his hand in the war--he dreams of a simple, normal life.
Over fifty years later, Naïm Rahil is a teenage Refugee from Aleppo, Syria.
Instead, she finds revolution and chaos.
She\'s hoping for a new beginning.
Together with him, she flees across the Pacific Ocean.
When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life.
She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family--and her society--hold her back.
Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice.
Two refugees in America find that their lives are inextricably linked--over time and distance--by the perils of history and a single haunting song
