In the developing world of Cambodia, government officials sell off residential property to corporations, eliminating impoverished neighborhoods through violent forced evictions. Men take up bricks and bottles to defend their houses, but the violence only escalates. Then 'Mommy', an elderly grandmother determined to provide a future for her granddaughter, rallies other women in her community to create a uniquely female protest movement exposing the moral bankruptcy of the government, which proves more challenging to the powers involved than any violent confrontation.