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Tamil refugees and Newfoundlanders discover friendship in this dramatization of an actual incident in 1986. Noreen Power, Brendan Foley, Kaisivisanathan Karthigasoo, Kumaraselvy Karthigasoo., This documentary-style drama pictures what would have happened if the true incident it is based upon had been handled differently. In the true incident, Sri Lankan refugees were set aswim off the coast of Newfoundland and were held by Canadian Immigration authorities. In the story, the refugees make it ashore.