Serap Berrakkarasu’s documentary observes female migrants from Turkey who work in a fish processing factory in Lübeck, northern Germany. The women talk about their lives, their sorrows and pains, but also their hopes and dreams. They describe their nostalgia for their homeland and the feeling of being lost in a foreign place.

According to Linde Fröhlich, “the vegetables come from the garden behind the house, the fish comes out of a can, and money for bread is earned at the factory. It’s because of this money that they came here. Their hands are stained brown, the pungent smell of fish clings to them, and their arms and backs ache. If these jobs were done by men, machines would have been invented long ago to replace them”.