Far from Home

When Mette Holm begins to translate Haruki Murakami's debut novel Kaze no uta o kike, Hear the Wind Sing, a two-meter-tall frog shows up at an underground station in Tokyo. The Frog follows her, determined to engage the translator in its fight against the gigantic Worm, which is slowly waking from a deep sleep, ready to destroy the world with hatred. As Mette struggles to find the perfect sentences capable of communicating what Murakami's solitary, daydreaming characters are trying to tell us, the boundary between reality and imagination begins to blur.

When Lucky moves from India to Scandinavia on a student visa, it's a lifelong dream come true. But in Copenhagen Lucky's dream collides with a harsh reality in which people line up to take advantage of his situation, while he has to work day and night to keep his visa. What started out as a golden opportunity increasingly feels like a trap, as Lucky begins to fathom the ramifications of going abroad.