The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.

Renata is a young peasant girl from Brazil at the end of the 19th century. She lives with Salomon, the evangelical pastor of the village, and two pregnant women. Salomon performs an exorcism in which he ends up killing a Guaraní man who supposedly invaded his lands. After the event, Renata wbegins to receive different demonic signs that put her faith and her surroundings to the test.