As South Sudan becomes the world's newest country, tens of thousands of southern Sudanese cross back over the border after two decades of civil war. Twenty-year-old Angelo Angwei is one of them, returning to land he barely knows after growing up in Khartoum, where his mother had fled fighting in 1986. He arrives at independence hopeful, but four months of searching turn up no work, and the family survives on money wired from his brother still in the north and food handouts from the World Food Programme. His mother accepts the aid as temporary relief; Angelo calls the dependency a kind of prison and decides to go back to Khartoum, a ten-day journey complicated by border closures. The camera follows him home to the north, where he says reclaiming his old life feels better than the new one he tried to build in the south. His story sits inside the larger one of a nation founded on returnees whose welcome does not match their expectations.