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The narrative is [[Nonlinear narrative|non-linear]], particularly in the first part of the piece, where multiple story arcs are shown simultaneously on stage. Narratives include looking for people in a queue, rocking a baby, and bodies left behind as the crowd moves to a new ___location.{{sfn|Piquero Álvarez|2021|p=467}} In some sections, dancers perform together, representing refugees as a single body of people moving as a group.{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=305}}{{sfn|Abdo|Attia|Amin|2023|p=82}} A motif in the work is dancers with outstretched arms, suggesting they have reached their physical limitations.{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=306}}
The movement incorporated realistic human gestures and fantastical, emotional extremes with animalistic qualities.{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=306}} The first section of the dance contains motifs of suspensions of weight or unbalanced spins.<ref name="Schabas 2017" /> The dancers often gaze upwards towards something too far to reach.{{sfn|Golomb|2023|p=310}} The duet between the two principal dancers shows the journey of a female character who starts as a mother providing support to her child, and then acts similarly to a baby who needs support.{{sfn|Piquero Álvarez|2021|pp=463-464}} The baby's presence represents an [[anchor baby]], whose birth allows the child to become rooted in their new ___location while the rest of the group is still transient.
==Critical reviews==
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