Maria and José have spent thirty years as Portuguese immigrants in Paris — she keeps a bourgeois apartment building running, he's the foreman his boss can't do without. Then a surprise inheritance arrives from Portugal, and their French neighbours and employers band together to stop them leaving. Ruben Alves's debut became one of the highest-grossing Portuguese films ever, a warm-hearted satire of class, diaspora, and the absurd lengths people will go to not lose a good concierge.
