I Dream Of Singapore

An injured worker lies in wait to return home. A migrant poet leads students in dreaming of a river. Another fresh-faced youngster arrives, eager to try his luck too. A social worker helping them journeys to their motherland, discovering deep pain and promise.

Interweaving the natural worlds and cityscapes of Bangladesh and Singapore, I Dream of Singapore poetically observes the broken bodies, stoic faces, surveilled dormitories, sprawling construction sites and shipyards that make up the migrant-labour flow from one of the world’s poorest countries to one of the richest. As ever-towering skyscrapers built by low-wage labourers rise, the bond that blossoms between migrant and social worker offers a hope for human empathy.