From three different places in the world, very different African immigrants all share the dream of a better life. They all embark on a perilous journey to reach a common destination: Europe. Harouna, a young artist from the coastal town Nouadhibou in the West African country of Mauretania, has left his wife and child in hope of a better future for all three of them. In Italy, a group of asylum seekers lives in a prison-like asylum centre, uncertain about whether they even have a future in Europe. And in Copenhagen we finally meet a group of people who may have reached the promised land, but who live a life of constantly searching for the money that their family is expecting them to send home. Ditte Haarløv Jensen is an excellent director, who subtly avoids one-sidedness in the stories about so-called illegal immigrants, which we otherwise only hear about in the news. 'Days of Hope' is a story of hope and dreams, and of the price that the world's refugees have to pay to live with both.