Wide street-level view of a rainy downtown Montreal intersection at night, wet reflective pavement and light trails from moving traffic, pedestrians in heavy winter coats under umbrellas, steam rising from a street vent beneath lit high-rise office towers.

KAINO70 · Three episodes

Two strangers. Three continents. One frozen night.

A psychological thriller about migration, memory, and the price of looking away.

Psychological thriller
3 × episodes
Montreal · Sahara · Libya
English

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The story

Two survivals meet in a Montreal winter. Only one of them is on trial.

01 · Joseph

He survived the crossing. Then the city began.

JOSEPH is a young Congolese man who survives the Sahara, a Libyan prison, and a sea crossing only to find himself in a Montreal refugee camp - his education meaningless, his past a secret he cannot share.

Wide eye-level view down a snow-covered Montreal residential street at dusk during heavy snowfall, brick row houses with exterior metal staircases on both sides, snow-covered parked cars, and lit streetlamps casting warm pools of light on the snow. — Act I · a city that arrives as weather.

02 · Sylvie

She came home and did not recognise it.

SYLVIE is a Canadian aid worker who returns from Guatemala shattered, seeking purpose in a city that feels like a foreign country. She volunteers at the same camp where Joseph struggles to survive.

View looking down the length of a narrow snow-covered Montreal back alley at night, warm vintage street lamps on graffiti-covered brick walls, steam rising from industrial exhaust vents, and snow-capped dumpsters lining the slushy path. — Act I · the volunteer route, after hours.

Something forms between them in the cold. Fragile. Real.
THE CROSSING · Act I

Then the body

03 · The evidence

The evidence points one way. Everything else points elsewhere.

When a city councilor is found dead in the camp with a ceremonial blade, Joseph is discovered standing over the body. The evidence points one way. Everything else points toward a twenty-year-old secret that someone is willing to kill to protect.

As a city demands justice and a system looks for the easiest answer, two people must decide what they’re willing to believe and who they’re willing to become.

Medium close-up portrait of a young Black man with short hair and light stubble wearing a textured olive-green jacket, lit by soft natural window light from the left. — Joseph Kabongo.

The truth is coming. But some truths destroy everything they touch.
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One question

THE CROSSING is a psychological thriller about migration, memory, and the price of looking away. Three episodes. Three continents.

What would you risk to cross the distance between who you are and who you love?
THE CROSSING