Gisella dreams about writing important things, genuine things, and quits her job at the newspaper after yet another article is insensitively edited. She contacts a recently started alternative paper, where she is given the proposition of writing an article about the living situation among immigrants. Through her research she meets Marisol, Abeba and her daughter Lucinda, who live in a barrack by the harbor. To help solve their financial troubles, she invites them to live in her large house that she inherited from her grandmother. At first everything works well, but soon the mutual respect between the three women turns into a power struggle and hospitality is replaced with rules and a system of punishments.

지셀라는 잡지사에서 불법 이민자들에 관한 기사를 의뢰받는다. 마침 돈이 필요했던 지셀라는 인터뷰하던 이민자들에게 방을 세놓고, 잘 지내는 듯했지만 점점 부딪히며 세 사람의 사이는 멀어지기 시작한다.