Across Australia, thousands of people who bought into new apartment blocks are discovering their homes are structurally unsound, from cracked walls to buildings condemned as unsafe to occupy. This film follows owners for whom the apartment is their only major asset, tracing what happens when a lifetime of savings turns out to be tied up in a building that cannot be insured, sold, or safely lived in. Engineers, building inspectors, and residents explain how defects go undetected until it is too late, and how gaps in regulation and inspection let substandard construction reach the market in the first place. The film moves between individual families dealing with evacuation notices and repair bills, and the wider industry practices, developer shortcuts, underqualified certifiers, that allowed the problem to spread across the country's apartment boom. It is a plain account of a housing crisis playing out quietly inside buildings that looked finished and sound from the street.