The Law of the Sea

On July 14, 2006, José Durá “Pepe” (Luis Tosar), and nine other crew members from the fishing vessel
Francisco and Catalina
took the decision, under the so-called Law of the Sea, to take 51 Eritrean migrants stranded ten miles off Malta, including a 2-year-old girl and a pregnant woman, onto a boat prepared for 10 crew members. For nine long days, the vessel was awaiting the decision of the European authorities. While negotiations were taking place between the diplomacy of half of Europe, more than sixty people were living together in barely fifty square meters.