Iman and his family flee Iran and end up in a hotel turned into a refugee center in Northern Sweden. Iman maintains his role as family patriarch but he breaks promise to his wife and joins local wrestling club. Rumours spread, Iman's fear and desperation begin to take a hold. Iman is a wrestler who was once on the Iranian national team. When the police start looking for him, he flees with his family - wife Maryam and their two daughters. They end up living in one room in a run-down refugee shelter in Sweden, "near the Finland border", sometimes delivering pizzas on snowmobile for money. The process drags on with statements and appeals, while the daughters miss their friends and Maryam misses being a pianist and piano teacher. His initial story was that a jealous teammate falsely accused him of being an anti-regime protestor. Then he tries to leverage the fact that his wife is pregnant. Hearing that elite athletes may get special dispensation, he joins a wrestling club, against his wife's wishes There he meets Swedish wrestler Thomas, who befriends him, and tries to get him to socialize with the team. Qualifying for international training camps, he meets his Iranian club, and gets into a fight with one of them. Eventually, he confesses to the asylum officers that he is gay, has had an affair with a fellow wrestler, and that was what got him into trouble. This is the 1st he has acknowledged this to his wife. But his family just wants to "go home", regardless of the dangers that may befall them - including being pressured to get him to return. There is a sub-plot about Abbas, a fellow asylum claimant who is repeatedly drafted to act as translator.