The film chronicles the dire reality of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon. By combining a multitude of perspectives, it offers intimate insights into the private lives of employers, agents and maids. Exposing modern forms of slavery, it also reflects on the role of women and domestic work at large in capitalist societies.

Port Trade Portrait is a portrait of the old Barcelona cargo port, which has been transformed into a tourist leisure area. Today, tourists step around Africans who are trying to make a living in the face of the constant threat of persecution and detention, right on the same docks from which the slave ships that enriched distinguished families set sail not so long ago.

Listening Tzotzil's words of a man who has lived as a slave and tells us his memories. The conversation is translated into spanish by his son, and playing in the field are the grandchildrens. A generation that shows us his worth daily struggle, the struggle of the Zapatistas.