How is it possible to deal with people who are unable to secure their own housing? Czech politicians take opposing positions, and their conflict emerges in all its intensity. The time-lapse documentary is a unique political ethnography of Czech political reality at the local level and one unsuccessful attempt to change it.

The lack of decent housing has become an overlooked everyday reality, where not only your salary but also your skin color determines whether a run-down hostel will become your lifelong home.  However, a new grassroot political movement, euphorically elected to lead a city of half a million people with an ambitious political goal—to eradicate family homelessness—was not willing to accept this. It was first city in Eastern Europe which decideded to implement the Housing First approach and help families stuck in a spiral of poverty and housing insecurity.

However, the careful and sensitive preparatory phase soon encounters resistance from the conservative part of society, reinforced by the populist and antisocial rhetoric of traditional political parties. The chain of disputes escalates into a dramatic social conflict, revealing not only a crisis of interpersonal solidarity and traditional social policy, but above all the international problem of the worsening situation of affordable housing.