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03/09/2009

BBC One - The Visitor

A professor returns to New York and finds two illegal immigrants living in his apartment.

Drama about a professor who reluctantly agrees to give a lecture in New York. When he arrives in the city, he finds two illegal immigrants living in his little-used apartment.

Recently widowed economics professor Walter Vale reluctantly agrees to give a lecture in New York. When he arrives in the city, he finds that two illegal immigrants have taken up residence in his little-used Manhattan apartment. An unlikely friendship develops between Walter and his unexpected guests - Syrian Tarek and his African girlfriend Zainab. Walter's previously bland and unfulfilling life is gradually transformed by their influence, until one day Tarek is arrested and thrown into a detention centre.

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