In this clip, the viewer may be shocked at the cheerfulness and the cheerful tone that the refugees have when recounting their trip and the difficulties they faced, such as 200 people dying in the Sahara and having to drink their own urine to survive, on their way to Lampedusa. However, the cheerfulness and optimistic tone displayed in this scene is because the Nigerian refugees have accepted the reality that they may very likely die on their way to Lampeduas. In her book We Refugees, Hannah Arendt discusses how the Jewish refugees’ cheerfulness and optimism stemmed from an acceptance of death. This is similar the Nigerian refugees seen in this clip. The Nigerian refugee speaking in this clip states that “it is risky in life not to take a risk, because life itself is a risk.” The refugees use the fact that life is a risk as validation for accepting the 200 deaths of their companions in the desert, and for their own possible deaths on their trip to Lampedusa. Traveling to Lampedusa from Nigeria through Libya and the Sahara was risky and most likely many would die, but at the same time, it was a greater risk to stay in Nigeria and had a more likely chance of dying. Essentially, death was a real possibility for the refugees not matter what risk they chose, so they accepted the possibility of death and decided to head to Lampedusa.