Dans une maison jaune au cœur de Strasbourg, des gens venus de tous les coins du monde livrent par bribes leur espoir de trouver un refuge suite aux persécutions qui les ont fait basculer dans l'exil. Progressivement, une autre violence va se superposer à la violence passée : celle qu'on leur fait subir, ici, chez nous...
Twenty years after the historic call by Coluche on the French radio "Europe 1", the "Restaurants of Heart" still exist and became a true charitable institution. Shot in Strasbourg, during winter, the film shows volunteers who help poor people who receive goods to survive.
Several times each year, they are 13.000 Km away from home, in a hospital in Laos. They come from Luxemburg, Strasbourg, Freiburg: they are surgeons, pediatricians, nurses, anaesthetists,...
After a tortuous journey that began in Ukrainian mountains, African cities or Sri Lankan countrysides, David, Rémy, Lilianne, Balan and Uma have arrived on the banks of the Rhine.