They wait together in hope at midnight. But the refugees don't know if and when the border guards will call them forward and give them a chance to pursue their dream of a life in Germany. Only those who have fled from an area of conflict have a chance. A few hundred will get through at any one time.
This is one of the daily scenes at a refugee camp in Idomeni on the Greek border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Most know it will be a long wait in the camp and so it is a scramb…