A somewhat vintage map that slowly reveals details of Friuli Venezia Giulia and then Trieste shows us right from the opening scene that the film will be set in the regional capital, and more specifically in the city’s Ponziana district.
An eviction order leads the multi-ethnic inhabitants of a run-down building to seek help from Casa delle Culture.
They receive help, become friends, go to the Politeama Rossetti Theatre together, and learn to emancipate themselves.
A somewhat vintage map that slowly reveals details of Friuli Venezia Giulia and then Trieste shows us right from the opening scene that the film will be set in the regional capital, and more specifically in the city’s Ponziana district.
An eviction order leads the multi-ethnic inhabitants of a run-down building to seek help from Casa delle Culture.
They receive help, become friends, go to the Politeama Rossetti Theatre together, and learn to emancipate themselves.
Kamla recently moved with her parents into a deteriorated flat complex in the suburbs of Trieste, where also other immigrant families and one old and grumpy professor live. One day, they all receive an eviction notice; determined to keep living in their flats, the men of the families react with rage to the threats received by the illegal landlord; while the women unite together in order to save their destiny. In the meantime Kamla and the professor become friends against her father's will, while her mother Shanti reveals her dancing talent. With the help of an Italian friend, a dance school is inaugurated. All the neighborhood is talking about the 'Babylon Sisters'.
