No se ve desde acá aims to document the contrast held by communities arriving in the U.S. under starkly different circumstances. Much like the people it is about, the film is suspended in that stasis between arriving and finding belonging, moving associatively through observational vignettes in contemporary Miami, juxtaposed with a disruptive collection of video and sound archives that range as far back as the 1930s, revealing an obsession with American individualism and alluding to an immigrant population that is in constant flux.

As major countries in Latin America shift to the left in reaction to vast inequality, uncertainty spreads across the immigrant population. The film begins with Gustavo Petro’s appointment as the first leftist President in Colombian history, as questions arise for immigrants about cultural identity, individualism, and economic opportunity.