Germany needs foreign nurses badly enough to recruit them across oceans, then makes it nearly impossible for their families to follow. Yanileidy, a pediatric nurse from Colombia, left her two young children at home expecting a few months apart before they could join her. Bureaucratic delays stretched that into years, and her marriage did not survive the wait. The film follows her and other South American caregivers through Germany's visa and credential-recognition system, sitting in on the paperwork, the waiting rooms, and the phone calls home that measure out the cost. Isabell Halletz, head of the German Employers' Association of Care Providers, explains why nursing staff are leaving in droves for the US and Canada instead, where the process moves faster. Interviews with caregivers, employers, and officials lay out a system straining under its own procedures even as hospitals and care homes report they cannot function without foreign labor. The result is a portrait of a country that recruits the workers it needs and then loses them to its own red tape.