At the start of Amid the Clouds, a two-hander by Amir Reza Koohestani, Imour, the 26-year-old male protagonist, is fighting for his life in the river Sava in Bosnia. The boat taking his family and other illegal travellers to Croatia has capsized, leaving him the only survivor. At the end of the piece...Imour (Hassan Madjooni) is venturing across the English Channel in a handmade boat, having escaped from a refugee camp in Calais.In between, the play charts his unsentimental, but touching relationship with another migrant, known as The Girl whom he encounters while working in a bar near the Croatian-Slovenian frontier. She is pregnant and alone, and needs someone to cross the border with her to deflect gossip and suspicion. Imour finds himself carrying the girl across the mountainous terrain.
