Mona, a young Cameroonian woman comes to America to study. She graduates with a Master's degree in Nursing and lands a job at Kaiser San Francisco. With a job secured, she wants to buy a single family home. However, due to the cost of living in San Francisco, she decides to buy a home in Antioch, California, which is about 45 minutes east of San Francisco. She works 6 days a week, 9-5. With a good salary, she wants to start a family. Mona meets Ugo. They fall in love and get married 6 months later. A year after their marriage, they have their first child, a boy. Mona takes 6 months off to nurse the child, after which she returns to work. Ugo works as a software engineer at Google in Mountain View. They both have to commute. They take their new born precious one to a nearby daycare center. They both have to get up pretty early in the morning, get ready for work and they also wake up their baby. The day care center closes at 6, which means that they have to get home before 6. The commute is brutal. She gets to work late and gets back late. This is taking a toll on her health. This goes on for 6 months. She can't stand this rat race. She must bring her mother from Cameroon. Mother arrives and meets her grandson. She is delighted to be with her daughter, her daughter's husband and her grandchild. Her daughter and son-in-law are now more relaxed. They don't need to rush to get ready in the morning and don't have to hurry home to pick up their child from the daycare center. Six months in America, grandma soon begins to feel homesick. She left behind her husband and friends and it has been hard to make new friends here in America, where people seem to be insular. She has made friends in church but they only meet once a week. She wishes she could see her new friends every day. Enter Otilia, a new urban village. Here, other immigrants like Mona and her husband bring their parents from abroad to live in a healthy multigenerational community where people don't just live next to each other but with each other. Now, grandma is no longer homesick. In fact, her husband is jealous and hurries to be with her in this wonderfully intimate village community, where toddlers make seniors feel young again, working professionals are in no rush and everyone lives in love and harmony.