No one, according to Shaun Tan. Because the story of every immigrant, every refugee, and every exile is universal and beyond words. In his graphic novel "The Arrival," he uses only images, paying tribute to all those who, leaving everything behind, dared to emigrate.

A man gives his wife and daughter one last kiss. He boards a steamship and crosses the ocean. The most painful but also the most important journey of his life begins - he leaves his homeland to build a better future for his family. He will travel alone to a mysterious country, to a place without family and friends, where nothing has a name and the future remains uncertain.