Alice is an Italian philosopher and activist. For three years the 31-year-old woman has been traveling between her hometown Palermo and Cologne. Whilst in Germany the prospect of a secure professorship awaits her within a year, she nevertheless feels committed to her home country. As soon as she is back there she gets involved in various organizations and begins to fight actively against injustice. She becomes particularly involved in helping Africans who are living illegally in Palermo. She helps them with applications, organizes sleeping shelters and corresponds with employers - for example when wages are not paid or working conditions become too poor. However, Alice's main preoccupations are the open doors of Africa: She expects an uncontrollable influx of people from all over Africa to Italy, Spain and Greece, where every helping hand will be needed to avoid escalation of tension between refugees and the local population.