Have you ever imagined that living in an airport for ten, or even twenty years is a kind of parenting experience.
In the late 1980s, a young man from Eastern Europe and the Republic of Kwakul, Victor Navalski, decided to go to the United States to fulfill his father's wish and buy plane tickets to the United States with simple luggage.
When he got off the plane at JFK Airport in New York at a terminal station to leave the airport, he was stopped. It turned out that there was a coup in their home country.
The president was attacked in the middle of the night and replaced as the new leader.
So the government is not recognized by the United Nations, United States, etc. It felt like overnight, his country disappeared from this earth.
This means Victor's passport and ID are all useless, and he's being held at the airport.
His status was also stateless, and under United States immigration law, he was not allowed into the country.
However, everything is far from simple, as all flights are round-trip.
In addition, he has no legal status, so the airport manager told him that you can stay temporarily in the airport's international transfer hall.
He couldn't understand the language, was dizzy, and followed management to the designated place.
Suddenly, he saw the news on the big screen and saw the bullet scene in his country, and he probably understood what was going on.
In an instant, it felt like the sky had collapsed. The suffering of national devastation and family breakdown came too suddenly.
Standing in this country that doesn't belong to him, Victor couldn't help feeling bewildered as he watched strange crowds come and go.
In desperation, he could only stay at the airport and sleep in a chair in the lobby, shower in the bathroom, and live serving passing passengers. All he had was his unfree body, as well as a small suitcase, which contained a change of clothes, razors, and an invalid identity certificate.
The staff concerned tells him that it may take several days, or perhaps several months, before your country is re-recognized and you can leave the airport once your identity has been recovered.
However, I'm afraid that nobody thought that the wait would be 9 months.
In order to survive, he helps waiters push carts, exchange coins, and buy burgers.
I carry unauthorized documents to the counter to get a visa every day, even though I've always been refused.
Later, I received decoration assignments, and even earned a higher salary than the airport boss.
He also fell in love with a beautiful flight attendant and went on a date with her.
Over time, he got to know all kinds of people here.
And he himself, rejected and rejected by everyone from the start, gradually became an indispensable role.
From the story, we find that everyone is waiting.
Victor is waiting to get out of the airport gates and head to New York to get an autograph for his father and fulfill his last wish.
It looks like a small airport, like a small community.
Life isn't satisfying, nine out of ten.
Victor uses a tenacious heart and a positive and optimistic attitude to overcome all difficulties when he has no money and language barrier.
He built a house for himself at gate 67 to rebuild, helps a Russian who buys medicine to save his father, gets married, meets love, and conquers a group of people who originally used it as a joke.
When he left, the entire airport had already been moved.
But there are some things we can only change. What kind of person do you want to be, what kind of life you want to live, do your original ideals still exist, and this kind of ridiculous Vic. Compare again, maybe what we have done is far from enough.