For the first time, a camera has made it through the gates of a detention centre for asylum-seekers in Switzerland. This documentary takes a close look at the dramatic lives of the people in this holding centre while they wait for the state to decide what to do with them. Surrounded by barbed wire, with surveillance cameras trained on them 24/7, this institutional, quasi-penal atmosphere can be a trying place for those with such an uncertain future, especially families with children.