NIGGERS is an award-winning documentary about Lampedusa and the political refugees who seek asylum on this small Mediterranean island. By Italian filmmaker Antonio Martino. What happens to migrants requesting political asylum between their arrival in Lampedusa and the granting of the refugee status? Are we really ready to welcome these persons by the relevant legislation? And how did we, Italians, forget our not so remote migrant past? The tensions between immigrants and locals in Lampedusa, a little village which hosts one of the greatest transit camp of Europe, reflect social problems growing everywhere in Italy: fear of diversity and poverty, alarmed reactions against the ongoing arrival of so many people in need.