One Sudanese man is interviewed about the accusations made by Egyptian individuals and newspapers against Sudanese refugees in Cairo, specifically against the members of his church. They are accused of growing and smoking cannabis, drinking alcohol and behaving inappropriately with women. The interviewed man dismisses these accusations as being caused by the strong anti-Sudanese prejudice of some Egyptian people, who are aiming to close their church. The man claims that he is barely acquainted with the several Egyptian accusers living on the same street as the church but does not know any of the others. 

Two other men are then interviewed about the same allegations. They say that there hadn’t been problems with Egyptians so far and that they don’t know the people who accused them of misconduct. Furthermore, they say the accusations, published in the headlines of a local newspaper, are caused by racist prejudice against black Sudanese people and that while the members of the church were also interviewed by the same newspaper, their words were either distorted or unpublished. 

One of the two men then describes the reasons that motivated him to leave Sudan. After staying in Egypt between 1989 and 1992, he returned to his home country. The man was then drafted forcefully in an Islamic militia. As a Christian, he deserted and went back to Egypt, where he has been living until the date of the interview. The other man came to Cairo in 1984 for his studies. Upon going back to Sudan in 1989, economic and political circumstances there prompted him to move back to Cairo to live there. The two men then described how newcomers are still arriving from Sudan to Cairo, via the Nile. Nine families were living in the church at the time of the interview. 

At his request, the interviewer then asks questions to a fairly recent newcomer, that has been living in the church for 9 months. This man was arrested and tortured by security forces in Sudan for taking pictures for the Vatican ambassador. After being requested to stop any journalistic work and to report on the catholic church’s activity by the security forces, he left for Cairo. He doesn’t work, but his wife does, as a maid, to support their family, which includes their two children. He lives in fear of being expelled of the country, as he doesn’t have a residential visa.