If you drive out of Cairo, Egypt, in an easterly direction you will hit the desert. But it won’t take many minutes before constructions sites with nice villas rise as far as the eye can see. This is New Cairo. Here many young men have their daily work with building houses, that they them-selfs will never be able to afford. In a small three-room-appartment in the workers living area lives 11 of the workers. Each one with dreams that are very different from the life they are living now. All of the young men from the appartment are from the village of Beni Suef. A city 150 km south of Cairo. They all know each other through family and parents' friends. They rarely work in the same building for several days, but are hired when some are missing a team to cut, carry and set up steel for the foundations.