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The story tells of the Polish migrant narrator's encounter, in a migrant transit camp in Italy, with a Polish-Arab boy called Franek. Franek is regularly beaten by his single mother, who is unable to cope with caring for her disabled daughter, and takes her frustrations out on her son. Franek asks the narrator why God allows suffering. The narrator is unable to provide a satisfactory answer, and is left feeling he has failed the boy.
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The title, 'Franek', is the diminutive form of the Polish man's name Franciszek (Francis).
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