Plot Outline
Maria, in her early 40s, commutes. After a few weeks in Romania, where she’s
from, she has a long stay in Austria, where as a 24-hour-caregiver she lives with
a senior citizen whom she takes care of. With empathetic objectivity, Maria Lisa
Pichler and Lukas Schöffel portray the caregiver in a state of permanent conflict:
between the desire to provide a livelihood for her family and the sacrifice she has
to make to do so. It soon becomes clear that those who fill a gap in one place
create a new one elsewhere.