
The Right to Roam
Roma communities across Europe face a wave of expulsions in the years covered here, with France and Italy carrying out mass deportations and public officials blaming Roma migrants for rising crime. The film follows people who left Romania, Bulgaria, and other countries of origin where they say discrimination shuts them out of jobs, schools, and housing, using European Union freedom-of-movement law to move west in search of work. Interviews with Roma families sit alongside officials and policy figures grappling with the backlash, including local residents who want them gone and EU lawmakers trying to reconcile free-movement rules with member states' demands for tougher borders. The film does not resolve the standoff; it lays out the arithmetic instead, thousands removed from French and Italian camps, EU law technically protecting their right to travel, and national governments finding ways around it anyway. What emerges is a portrait of a stateless-feeling minority caught between a legal right to roam and the everyday reality of being unwanted wherever they land.