The SpeakEasy Project

In the vibrant metropolis of today's New York, two young Hungarian immigrants, Mirjam, journalist, and Attila, hand worker, make their ways, struggle with every day challenges.

Young Hungarians are trying to make in the Netherlands.

At just twenty years old, the rapper has already gone through several identities. As a child, he dreamed of becoming famous. Today, he sells out stadiums. But living with ADHD and achieving success at such a young age has begun to take its toll. Pogány Induló struggles with panic attacks and physical collapses, suppressing his condition through drug use and alcohol consumption. With the recent passage of a Hungarian law criminalizing drug possession and the promotion of drug use, he has also become a political target and finds himself living on the edge of the law. A dynamic montage of images, memories, and thoughts mirrors the rapper’s chaotic mental state, underscoring the dark side of fame at such a young age, as well as the loss—and ongoing search—of one’s identity

Sweet Home is the fourth episode of LEAVE/STAY documentary series on migration, life experiences, and the dilemmas of contemporary Hungarian youth, also nicknamed the generation of New Mobility. The episode comprises three independent stories of families returning home and facing major challenges in the process. All homecoming stories are different: some return due to success, some due to failure. Some set off alone and returned with a family. Some were homesick, some saw an opportunity coming home. The question in each and every case remains the same: will the ones who come back find their home again?