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Across every continent, lives have been put on hold, and people are looking to the day when they can pick up and restart after lockdown – often with hope and at times trepidation.

Alan Dein connects to people around the world looking forward to the things most important to them.

In Mexico, Lucia has spent the past seven years searching for her kidnapped son – one of thousands of disappeared children in the country. For the first time, she has been forced to put that on hold.
Captain Jens aboard a vast container ship has not been on land for three months – and does not know when he will next see his family, but he is finding solace in the logs of his ancestors.

In Nigeria, student Babatunde Ismail Bale is sheltering in a mosque after his college closed its doors – but is still finding ways to study.
And in the Philippine’s capital Manila, armed soldiers on the streets are bringing back fearful memories of martial law in the 1970s.

Plus stories from Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Sudan of isolation and expectation.