Wake Up, Ali... Wake Up Now utilizes an archetypal migration story, told through recognizable migrant characters, to highlight a theme that is most relevant today in a world where we all face unrelenting pressures to strive and succeed, we are all migrants and rootless in some way, both at the material and spiritual level. After all, what more can men do when faced with the death of their self-image? Or are they capacitated to re-invent a new free self-image for them?