Crossing the line between fiction and nonfiction, director Jose Luis Guerín presents a neorealist portrayal of life in a working-class Barcelona neighborhood. Guerín spent eighteen months documenting (and frequently staging sequences of) the construction of a new apartment complex in a rundown section of the city. This semi-documentary features a colorful cast of characters that includes a squatter couple facing displacement and a determined group of construction workers, all of whom provide fresh insight into the human changes that renovation and gentrification bring about in the changing urban landscape.