TERMINAL MAN

"The Terminal Man" is the extraordinary story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, better known as 'Sir Alfred', who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport, for sixteen years. He sleeps on a bench, dines at MacDonalds, and is surrounded by piles of magazines and his extensive diary. He arrived at the airport on 8 August 1988, intending to take a plane to London. Without the proper documentation he quickly found himself trapped in a bureaucratic catch-22 nightmare. Fearing arrest as an illegal immigrant if he left the terminal building, he has been waiting…