I am Dublin is a documentary film beginning in a fictional story inspired by a tough reality. Ahmed gets a role playing a character whose life mirrors his own life. He has been in Europe for six years, living in hiding in Sweden three years. Having arrived by boat to the Italian island Lampedusa, he can only apply for asylum there, a law known as the Dublin Regulation. In one scene in the film Ahmed's fingers are painted by a make-up artist who specialises in wounds. It looks like he tried to remove his fingerprints with acid. The situation awakens Ahmed's own memories of trying to remove his fingerprints with sandpaper and razor, hoping to not be found in the EU's data systems. He is one of hundreds of thousands of so-called Dublin-cases are deprived of all rights and deported from country to country in Europe. They live in a limbo with no control over their own lives.