The film is a short poetic documentary based on a text by author Tor Obrestad that describes the everyday life of "Gamlingen"; a distinctive outdoor pool in Stavanger.

Many Norwegians went to America to find happiness, but not all of them found the promised land where many created themselves a new future. This is the story of some of those who became part of poverty America and who, in the 1920s and 30s, had to settle on a rubbish dump in Brooklyn, NY.