Amori. Die Inseln

"If I don't get a residence permit in Europe, there is not a single country that will take me in. This is crazy. And in Kabul they kill me. Yet they threaten me with deportation. I don't understand," says a young man at the Moria registration and reception center on the Greek island of Lesbos.
They are fleeing war, dictatorship, hunger and the effects of climate catastrophe; some are in search of a better life; they come from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Maghreb and sub-Saharan countries. What they all have in common is that they cross the Aegean Sea in unseaworthy rubber boats and are held in camps on the Greek islands until it is decided whether they will be allowed to apply for asylum in Europe - or whether they will be deported to Turkey. That can take years.
Nine men and women from the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, refugees and activists, tell the author (or her fictional alter ego Henny L.) what it takes to survive there. It is about hunger, cold, heat, waiting, violence and the radical loss of control over one's own life.
Amori. Die Inseln is not a chronicle of scandals, but a documentary report that uses literary means to get as close as possible to the people involved. Centuries-old European practice is documented: the selection and the camp.
The protagonists counter it with their very own ideas of personal fulfillment and freedom.