Greece has long been the first European stop for migrants entering illegally, but for many the country turns out to be another dead end rather than a gateway. VICE News correspondent Alex Miller travels from Athens to the western port city of Patras, talking to migrants from Syria and Afghanistan who arrived expecting stability and instead found a country in economic crisis. Interviews on the street and in makeshift housing lay out the daily obstacles: no legal work, no steady shelter, and the constant risk of arrest and deportation. The film also tracks the rise of Golden Dawn, the nationalist party whose supporters have been tied to violent attacks on immigrants, and shows how that hostility shapes where people can safely walk or sleep. Miller's on-the-ground reporting favors direct testimony over narration, letting migrants describe why leaving their home countries still felt like the safer option. The result is a plain account of people caught between a war they fled and a country that does not want them.