In the outskirts of the city, there is a neighborhood of monoblock buildings whose windows connect the stories of the people that live there. An unemployed man who invests his wife's savings in an absurd business; a deaf-mute puppeteer who entertains the children from the opposite tower using his puppets; a single mother who prostitutes herself to p ay the rent and feed her son; a butcher who receives a visit from his niece and becomes obsessed with her; a young student girl with a miserable life and two kids who dream of going to China. They breathe the neighborhood's sordidness and the hope of escaping from themselves.