A flip book, Asylum/Ransomed features two separate titles. In Asylum, join Sameer in a classroom under Taliban rule. Escape persecution in a plastic dingy with Mohammad. Witness the brutality of a Ugandan orphanage. Feel Mahwish’s agony as she searches through garbage dumps to feed her unborn baby. And then – come with them to Canada. Experience new tortures, new pains – and sometimes, smatterings of joy and peace. Ransomed is the story of quarries: of the hunted, the displaced – the world’s refugees. In a Canadian resettlement centre, English teacher Sarah struggles to find meaning among refugees who are learning to live again. When she travels on a pilgrimage to Israel, she discovers how to walk with others in the aftermath of unspeakable horror.