Palermo, Italy, 2016. CNN reports that two boys with the same DNA are born prematurely on a rickety boat on the Mediterranean, surviving against all odds. Filmed in the course of seven years, TWIN is a surprising and unsettling coming-of-age story about twin brothers Hiyap and Evenezer and their determined Eritrean mother, Merhawit. After settling for asylum in Germany, Merhawit pursues her mission to be reunited with father Yohannes, who stayed behind in Sudan. Her never-ending dance with the Kafka-esk bureaucratic system in Germany turns into a feminist fairytale when she finally liberates herself. While the filmmaker struggles with her role, the twins get older and gear up to take the director's seat...