During the 1950s, the Colombian city of Cali suffered major damage from a series of explosions caused by dynamite stored in different places around the city. Faced with this situation, the Venezuelan government of Pérez Jiménez endowed the city with a vast Corbusier-influenced residential block called the República de Venezuela. Today the building is in a precarious state. There is constant movement due to the shops and businesses that have been set up in the apartments; the gardens, which have been abandoned and now resemble areas of waste ground, are inhabited by beggars and all manner of people who live on the margins of the formal city. The building has thus become a kind of city in the centre of the city.
The video features interviews with people who recount their experiences of the place, juxtaposed with images of the building peppered with random sentences explaining how they have slept, urinated, stolen from people or lived in and around the República de Venezuela.