The Journey from Syria, Part Four

In the last episode of “The Journey,” the group dynamics began to fray. More than a hundred refugees and migrants had left Greece together on foot, but the able-bodied among them had little patience for those unfit for the trek. Within two days, they had abandoned an old man by the side of the highway. (The filmmaker, Matthew Cassel, arranged for him to be picked up by an ambulance.) A group of young men insisted on splitting off from the large families and marching at their own pace. “The easy part was hard for you, and the real shit is yet to come,” one of them told a group of mothers and children.

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Related:
The Journey from Syria, Part Three
The Journey from Syria, Part Two
The Journey from Syria, Part One