Nour and Tarek. 31 and 36 years old. Syrians. | Nour and Tarek have three children. They had chosen to teach in the village where they were born in Syria, near Damascus. “It’s a very good place to live. It’s easy to teach people you know.” “The village is a family,” says Nour nostalgically. In 2011, war broke out and took hold in the country for the long-term. Nour and Tarek wanted to stay despite the violence that was seeping into their daily lives a little more each day. But when their children came home from school singing ISIS hymns, they knew that they had to leave Syria. “Because having bad things in the head is worse than seeing people killed.” It took five years for Nour and Tarek to decide to go into exile. After ten days of travel, the couple and their three children arrived in Greece in March 2016. The family has been living for a few months in a hotel room requisitioned by activists. Nour writes poems there thinking of the loved ones who stayed behind: « For a mother I left behind, – her eyes can never leave my mind, – the day I left keeps knocking on my door, – it upends my soul, strikes me again and again – and I can never know if I will see them again one day.» | City Plaza, Athens – Greece 2017