Set in 1993 in the border city of Turin, this latest film from Italian-Swiss director Rolando Colla focuses on an architect who is called home to care for her aging father. At the nursing home, she meets an undocumented Bosnian refugee working as an orderly who forms a special bond with her father until a mischievous night lands him in prison. Although the architect tries not to become involved in the refugee’s life, she finds herself drawn into the personal and familial tragedies he has suffered and in the process unearths a pathway to her own tumultuous childhood in postwar Europe. In its moving, straightforward exposition, Beyond the Border provides a topical reflection on the consequences of war and loss for the modern European family.