In early 2024, the Irish government stopped providing accommodation to single male asylum seekers for the second time. While funding charities to provide tents to homeless asylum seekers, the government simultaneously orders the authorities to prevent the asylum seekers from pitching these tents in the city. Olivia and her small group of predominantly female volunteers spend their mornings and evenings on the streets of Dublin helping homeless asylum seekers try to find a safe place to sleep each night. Both the volunteers and asylum seekers face constant harassment from both far-right politicians and the police.

The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers is a follow-up to the Swedish Academy award-winning The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp (IDFA, 2024), which followed Sami, Simon and Hasiballah – three residents of an encampment for homeless asylum seekers which was burned down by a far-right mob in Dublin in 2023.