The protagonist, a young man, leaves his troubled homeland in search of a new home for his wife and daughter.
The man also encounters friendly strangers that share their accounts of immigrating from troubled homelands.
Russia's most famous emigre writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to his troubled homeland Friday after 20 years of exile.
Even the few deaths seem vague: The bodies of two victims, a Filipino and a Sri Lankan, were sent back to their troubled homelands.
If they want to stay in Britain as refugees, rather than return to their troubled homeland, then their fate remains in the hands of the Home Office.
And while their cases are on hold, the Haitians live in a state of limbo, torn between their troubled homeland and their troubles here.
Today's coup was the third military coup in South Africa's troubled black homelands within six months.
Singing songs of love, she is addressing the body politic of her troubled homeland more than any lover.
Faced with a language barrier, little knowledge of American culture and a troubled homeland, Haitians in New York have traditionally kept to themselves.
Whether Petrenko can bring a psychological lift to his troubled homeland depends a great deal on his ability to skate cleanly.