Cast Away Souls focusses on the Detention Center Sjaelsmark in Denmark, where the bureaucratic coldness of European migration policy is displaying in an especially perfidious version. In the film, we follow the questions of Stanley Edward, who was himself housed there for many years, to current manager of the center, a trained prison director. In the conversation, Edward's questions make the director reveal the specific mechanisms at work in the center. Again and again, the director is pointing to rules and laws, and if he could decide on his own, he would act differently – but he is not allowed to. And because of that he doesn’t.