About twenty years after they met in Sardinia, the Senegalese Ibu moves in with his girlfriend, the retired judge Mietta in Milan. When later his pregnant wife Bousso also happens, the temporary hospitality grows into a long-term situation and Mietta buys a larger apartment for all of them. While Ibu is a lot away from home for work, the young Bousso and the older Mietta share everyday life, in which personal differences soon emerge. The documentary will follow how the household develops over several years. As child Khadim grows up and Mietta is confronted with the vulnerability of aging, tensions arise about education, privacy and dependence. Conversations on family expansion, Italian citizenship and power dynamics in the home expose the complex relations. Through intimate observations and direct questions from the filmmaker, the documentary visualizes the fragile balance between hospitality and autonomy. The film is such a human portrait of migration, the search for a home and building a family, beyond blood ties.

Il film sarà in concorso al IDFA Festival 2026 di Amsterdam.