Overeducated, underemployment professionals Hugo (Yon González, trained in the financial sector) and Braulio (Julián López, a scientist) are lured to migration (human) to Berlin by a TV programme showing an interview with an émigré who describes Germany as employment paradise. Hugo literally runs into Carla (Blanca Suárez), a fellow Spaniard who has finally broken through as a professional after a similar struggle with underemployment, within minutes of arriving in Berlin. Hugo and Braulio room with Carla and her drug-dealing slacker brother Rafa (Miki Esparbé), sharing a building with an older Spanish expatriate, Andrés (José Sacristán), who sees the struggles of his generation echoed in Hugo and Braulio.