Through the window, the image of a large green woman holding aloft a torch comes into view in the distance. Her presence cements into reality, for Boryslav and his family, a relocation that none of them could have foreseen just a few months ago.

While he thinks on what it means to be a refugee, he looks more intently and notices a sinister smile on the great lady’s face.

I always enjoy – in good storytelling – when the characters think they have reached a place of safety only to learn that they have been lured into a trap. The Statue of Liberty is so often used as a positive symbol that it felt like good material to use for subversion of expectations.

Obviously I am not the only one who has had this particular idea.