Antoanela Andonescu, known as Coca, spent decades in Italy working as a geriatric nurse after leaving Romania in the 1990s, part of a mass emigration that emptied villages and left children with grandparents and the elderly alone. The film follows her return to Bicaz in eastern Romania, where she has used her savings to open a nursing home for people left behind by relatives working abroad, among them Vasile, a former cement factory worker whose family moved to Western Europe. On an outing to Lake Bicaz she reflects on how her life might have gone had she never left. The film also follows her niece Andra, who has settled with her daughter Gizelle among the roughly 250,000 Romanians now living near Ostia outside Rome, and asks how much of Romania will still shape a child raised in Italy. Interviews and observational scenes in both countries trace one extended family across the divide between the home people leave and the one they build, and what gets carried between them.