This chapter explores Ben Sharrock’s Limbo (2020) as a poignant and darkly humorous reflection on exile, waiting, and the search for belonging. Set on a remote Scottish island where asylum seekers await decisions on their refugee status, the film portrays displacement not through spectacle or crisis but through the quiet absurdities and emotional burdens of suspended lives. The analysis highlights how Sharrock employs deadpan humour, static camerawork, and long takes to construct an atmosphere of stillness and estrangement, conveying both the monotony and the resilience of his characters. Central to the discussion is the film’s evocation of reflective nostalgia, most powerfully expressed through the protagonist Omar’s memories of home, which emerge as fragile yet sustaining connections to identity and continuity. In contrast to reductive or sensationalist portrayals of refugees, Limbo insists on empathy and dignity, humanising the migrant experience while exposing the psychological toll of bureaucratic liminality. The chapter situates the film within contemporary European cinema’s engagement with displacement and argues that its style contributes to a broader rethinking of how migration stories can be told: not only through trauma and conflict but also through irony, intimacy, and the ambivalent work of nostalgia.