After Isio fled Nigeria due to her homosexuality and lived in England without papers, she is picked up and taken to an asylum centre. She hopes for a fair hearing as long as she adheres strictly to the rules. Her charismatic flatmate Farah, however, thinks this is a naïve mistake. While Isio inevitably gets used to life in the centre, she falls in love with Farah and makes friends with the other women. Their escape fantasies initially seem absurd to Isio, but when she herself is repeatedly thrown back by the system and the promise of a new life is threatened, it becomes clear that the time has come to play by her own rules. In ‘Dreamers’, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor also deals with her own experience of the British asylum system.