A single family lives through two traumatic events with a forty-year gap between them. The first is the loss of a family member, in which we see how everyone is affected by that loss; and the second is the arrival of new neighbours, ''strangers'' who disrupt the family and its alleged social ''harmony''. Will we discover that in fact the true strangers are not the neighbours from other cultures, but rather us, who are so reluctant to allow them into our families, our everyday reality, our conscience and our hearts?