Season 2

In the second instalment of this award-winning series, six prominent Australians risk their lives to experience the reality of refugee life as they embark on an extraordinary and confronting three-week journey. Tempers flare as the Australians - Peter Reith, Catherine Deveny, Angry Anderson, Michael Smith, Imogen Bailey, and Allan Asher - move in with resettled refugees and asylum seekers. But nothing can prepare them for the twists and turns in store. They face mortal danger in the world's deadliest cities - from the sweltering, war-torn capital of Somalia, Mogadishu to the riotous streets of Kabul, freezing amid the mountains of Afghanistan.

In this episode, the refugee experiment gets bolder still. The Australians experience two countries torn apart by war. With ever-present danger, their differences become more pronounced. In Afghanistan, Reith, Deveny, and Anderson arrive as riots break out across the country. Tension is high as the Australians are confronted with a stark reminder of why so many Afghanis desperately want to escape their country. They meet victims of violence and visit makeshift camps for displaced Afghanis. Meanwhile, in Mogadishu, Smith, Bailey, and Asher meet a group of mothers desperately trying to keep their starving children alive. They then join the greatest human exodus of modern times, heading for a refugee camp on the Ethiopian border.

In the final episode, the Australians head for Indonesia. They live with a refugee family in Jakarta, desperate to get on a boat no matter what the risk. Reith, Deveny and Anderson travel to the island of Roti, a recruiting ground for people smugglers. But the young men they meet are not the villains they expected. The six Australians then become boat people themselves, aboard an Indonesian fishing vessel headed for Christmas Island and directly into the eye of a storm. Finally, with unprecedented access to detainees, the journey reaches an emotion-charged conclusion within the walls of the notorious Christmas Island Detention Centre.