More focused and specific than Human Flow, The Rest ventures from the Greece-Macedonia border to southern Italy and the Calais jungle, gathering testimony from those most directly caught up in the refugee crisis. Ai Weiwei remains behind the camera throughout, removing any distraction that his presence might have caused.

同样作为人类，有人活的优越而麻木，有人经历着突如其来的天灾，也有人常年遭受着人为的政治与战争的侵害，无家可归，流离失所，处于战火与漫天的硝烟之间，混沌而无助，坚强而乐观，导演艾未未记录下叙利亚、阿富汗、伊拉克等地区国家的难民现状，难民人口的流离失转，用极富洞察的摄影，把一幕幕人口流动印刻人心~