Visitor

Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano. Walter is assigned to attend a conference at the New York University. When he arrives at his apartment in New York, he finds Tarek Khalil, a syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek offers to teach Walter to play the drum. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested by the police and sent to a detention center of immigrants. Walter hires a lawyer to defend Tarek and out of the blue, Tarek’s mother Mouna appears at Walter’s apartment from Michigan. He invites her to stay in Tarek’s room and while trying to release Tarek, Walter and Mouna get close to each other and he finds a reason to live an exciting life again.