Waiting for Happiness

Before immigrating to the West Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou Mauritania to visit his mother Although he grew up there Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood He can no longer speak the local dialect and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider But as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician he cant help but feel a sense of loss for the life hes abandoning