Sami is settling in and has finally made contact with his family, who are now safe and living with a lovely couple in Berlin. Katy persuades Sami to go to the local refugee centre, which he does despite his prejudices about table-tennis tables and dreadlocked Europeans. There he recognises an old acquaintance from Damascus.

John is still living the nightmare of being at a new school and being taught by his mum. When he gets into a fight, Katy is forced to realise that John is angry about more than just an ingenious classroom prank. And while all this is happening, Peter has his worst prejudices about Sami confirmed, and the fallout from that discovery will have lasting consequences for them all.