Life Overtakes Me

By Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas ’70

Published June 21, 2019

1 min read

Life Overtakes Me (Stylo Films) follows the lives of three refugee children with Resignation Syndrome, an illness primarily observed in immigrant children in Sweden, which presents which coma-like symptoms. This documentary details the traumas and fears these families experience after escaping violence in their home countries only to wait anxiously for asylum while they care for their catatonic children.

Published in the June 5, 2019, Issue