Immigration is a daunting global issue and the timely “Aisha” spotlights a Nigerian refugee’s hope for asylum in Ireland.

Letitia Wright is Aisha Osagie, who fled her native Nigeria after she was raped by the bandits who murdered her father and brother.

It’s a situation Wright, 30, knows intimately.  Born in Guyana, she was eight when her family moved to London.  Her acting career was launched internationally as Shuri, the younger sister of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in “Black Panther.” Following Boseman’s early death, Shuri assumed the Black Panther role in the 2022 sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

However, “Aisha” is far from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its mighty budgets.

“I personally felt this story to be super compelling,” Wright began in a phone interview. “I’m always looking for stories that have layers, that can relate to people in real time. This story for me just resonated. When I spoke to my writer-director Frank Berry it was a beautiful conversation about what was happening in the world regarding immigration.

“Specifically for him being from Ireland, he saw this massive problem that was happening and wanted to tell the story about it.

“My character doesn’t have a lot of words,” Wright noted. “But she’s onscreen 99.9% of the film — and it was about that internal dialogue and how I constructed myself as an artist with a character that was going through different stages in this emotional journey. Most times it was in the silence.

“Aisha,” she added, allowed her to, “Stretch myself as an artist and be part of something that was meaningful.”

As she awaits the court decision on her asylum request, we see that Aisha is treated with respect. She’s given housing and a legal representative.  She’s found a job in a beauty parlor.  And she’s met a sympathetic soul in Conor, an ex-con who works in security (played by Josh O’Connor, currently opposite Zendaya in “The Challengers” and Emmy-nominated as Prince Charles in “The Crown”).

“That’s quite interesting. I felt like our director was playing around with the idea from his first film “Michael Inside” to this. His first film is set in a prison and looks at young, incarcerated men and the process they go through.

“And the idea of Conor was, ‘What if one of those young men came out of prison and goes back into society?’ What does that look like for them?

“So it was a bit of inspiration from that. I feel like Conor is the unexpected help that Aisha needs. But she doesn’t take — if that makes sense.”

“Aisha” is in theaters May 10