On the 3rd of october 2013, just off the small island Lampedusa, 369 refugees drown when their boat sink. Adal Neguse, an eritrean man based in Stockholm, lost his brother in this disaster. To be able to grief his brother Adal wants to investigate what actually happened that night. He interviews survivors as well as regular Lampedusans who saved people from the sea. Slowly a picture is painted of what happened and finally Adal meets someone who remembers his brother from that night. The film becomes a work of grievance that gives a name and a face to one of the 369 people who died. Thousands of people still disappear on the deadly border to Europe each year. They become figures and statistics in our news, but we seldom get to know who they or their families are.

The film is based on works from the project www.rememberinglampedusa.com and it is founded by Koneen Säätiö, Svenska Kulturfonden, Konstsamfundet, Suomen Akatemia and Finlands Filmstiftelse.