Gabriel enters second. Her father has just died and her mother, a cleaning lady, wants at all costs to finance her studies in a private and expensive high school. But Gabriel is performing poorly and feels guilty, because his mother sacrifices herself for him and struggles with financial problems.

To avoid losing custody of her six-year-old daughter in Manila, Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner working in a luxury Swiss ski resort, must earn money at any cost – even if it means transgressing her own moral limits.