About Far From Home
Far From Home follows Ishaya Bello, a gifted but poor teenage artist from Lagos whose talent far outruns his circumstances. When a rare scholarship to the elite Wilmer Academy lands in his lap, it looks like the doorway he has been drawing toward his whole life, a chance to fund an artistic future that his family could never afford on its own. The catch is that the world on the other side of the gate runs on money he does not have, and belonging there comes with a price tag he is expected to keep paying.
To hold onto his place and ease the weight on his struggling household, Ishaya is steadily pulled toward the schemes of the city's wealthy and well connected, the kind of shortcuts that promise quick relief and quietly raise the stakes with every step. The series sets his hunger to create against the pressure to provide, watching a decent kid weigh how much of himself he is willing to trade for a future he can almost touch.
Created by Dami Elebe and directed by Catherine Stewart and Kayode Kasum for Inkblot Productions, the five-part series became one of the first Nigerian young adult dramas made for Netflix. Anchored by Mike Afolarin as Ishaya and a fast-rising ensemble including Genoveva Umeh and Olumide Oworu, it frames a familiar class-divide story through a distinctly Lagos lens, where art, ambition, and the cost of belonging collide.
