VALZEINA is a remote village in the heart of Europe, where the authorities bought an abandoned house and transformed it into a facility for rejected asylum seekers. Today one of four of the inhabitants of the community are foreigners in this «Paradise». The microcosm of a small mountain village illustrates the global issue how we, the privileged, are dealing with illegal immigrants. It shows through an unusual perspective the conflict between compassion and justice.—Primatoni Filmverleih

Since the Swiss government has installed a deportation center for rejected asylum seekers in the idyllic mountain village Valzeina, every fourth person in the village is an illegal immigrant. "Life in Paradise - Illegals in the Neighbourhood " shows the workings of the Swiss asylum policy, how we privileged people from the western world deal with asylum seekers in our neighborhood, how our lifes are affected by this and what it means to live as a rejected asylum seeker in the "paradise".—Primatoni Filmverleih