Visitor, The

Walter (Jenkins) has been teaching the same economics course at a Connecticut college for the past 20 years. After the death of his wife, Walter slowly becomes numb to the joys of both his professional and personal lives. When he is called to New York to speak on an economics paper he co-authored, Walter decides to stay at his long-vacant apartment in the city he used to share with his wife. To Walter's surprise his apartment has two new tennants—Tarek (Sleiman) and Zainab (Gurira), two illegal immigrants who have "rented" the apartment from a friend. Instead of calling the police or evicting The Visitors, the mild-mannered professor invites them to stay at his apartment—accepting drum lessons from Tarek in return for their rent. (Stacey Pendry)