Dheepan is a Tamil warrior forced to flee to France to escape Sri Lanka"s civil war. Posing as a family with a woman and young girl he has never previously met, Dheepan works to build a new life and home for his supposed wife and daughter. But the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens the violence from his past, and he is left fighting for their livelihood, and eventually their lives.
Dheepan is a Tamil warrior forced to flee to France to escape Sri Lanka"s civil war. Posing as a family with a woman and young girl he has never previously met, Dheepan works to build a new life and home for his supposed wife and daughter. But the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens the violence from his past, and he is left fighting for their livelihood, and eventually their lives.
