At the Sham supermarket on Donegall Road, south Belfast, managers Sultan and Mohammed have decided it's time to leave.
"It's about to kick off," says Mohammed, who left Syria in 2014 with a shrapnel wound in his leg and became a British citizen in 2015.
"We've got to go," says his younger friend Sultan, who was just 10 years old when he and his family fled Aleppo to come to Northern Ireland’s capital.
The two men get into Mohammed's car, which is a living monument to what life with six children is like: croissants lie half-hidden under seats, discarded clothes climb up the baby seat, and one of the windows appears to be permanently open.
At a Lebanese cafe a few minutes around the corner, the two Syrians, both of whom have lived in Northern Ireland for more than a decade, talk about the destruction of all their hard work.
