REFUGEES

Jan and his daughter,Jasmine are stuck in the middle of a snowy forest near the borders of a country where they try to reach, in a survival journey without food and supplies. During the Journey, Jan remembers the past and all the beautiful and bad stops which led him to this current situation. Jan, a young Dutch man converts to Judaism to marry his Jewish classmate, Sofia, taking the advice of his best friend Bart who believes in all religions and hate both discrimination and double-standard concept. Jan and Sofia bring a beautiful daughter ,Jasmine. They live a beautiful life until the German army invade the Netherlands, where they end up in a concentration camp. Jasmine secretly stays with her father in the men's dormitory, while Sofia is separated from them and stays in the women's dormitory. Jan finds Bart as an SS officer in the camp. Jan rescued Bart's daughter from a certain death long time ago. So, Bart finds himself obligated to rescue Jan's family in return. Bart helps Jan working in sanitation in the camp. Jan exploits his job in understanding the camp details, bringing good quality soldier's food rests to his daughter and finding tools that help him write letters for his wife. Jan gets tuberculosis. He decides to initiate the escape plan. This is done through hiding in the train that comes periodically to transport the masses of worthless belongings of the arrivals out of the camp. Jan asks Bart to help him for the escape puting Bart into two options eather stay cowerd or demonstrates a heroic stance through reminding him that he ,Bart, was once fighting discrimination and double-standards concept but now as an SS officer, he is completely the opposite. Jan and his daughter succeed the escape but they get chased by German soldiers on a long chase infested with danger until they reach the Balkans and hide in a farm where the owner of the farm helps them sneak to Greece. They get smuggled in a fishing boat full of European refugees across the sea under the veil of night. Jan manages a car which transfers him and his daughter to the borders. At night there is a snow storm. The car stops close to the border. Jan continues the journey on foot. Jan and his daughter are stranded in the middle of a snowy forest near the border. Jan tries to survive for two days. They run out of food; his illness gets worse. They come across a very cold river. Jan carries his daughter on his back and crosses that river. This worsens Jan’s condition even more. At night, he feels his end approaching, so he takes out the last letter from his wife and reads it, “You and Jasmine run away. I will not be able to escape because they will take the women to another place in the morning.” Jan hides this information from his daughter along the journey, but now he puts the letter in Jasmine's bag and cries all night quietly. He wanted to take his daughter to the refugee camps first and get back to Germany to rescue his wife. In the morning, Jasmine wakes up and finds her father dead. She notices a sign from a distance. She runs towards the sign and discovers that she has reached the Syrian border. Syrian soldiers transport her and her father's body in an ambulance to the city of Aleppo. Jasmine enters with dozens of European refugees into the refugee camp in Aleppo. Jasmine takes her clothes off, thinking that it is the same entry proceedures she experienced before. The camp director, a Syrian woman, stops her, surprised by this behavior. She offers Jasmine the chance to live with her two children in her house and to give her a warm heart, which Jasmine accepts. When the Axis powers launched the attack on Eastern Europe, tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans took refuge in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries.