The story of the Alexandrians focuses on the painful, almost exclusively female emigration from Slovenia. Due to poverty and the fascist assimilation policy, many people, especially the young ones, left the Vipava valley (in the western part of Slovenia) before the onset of World War II. Men emigrated to Argentina, never to return, while women and girls went to Egypt, mostly to what was then the rich and cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, where some of them remained for several decades, working as wet nurses, nannies and some as housewives. Many of them returned too late to enjoy living with their own children and in their own homes – which is meant quite literally, since it was usually their hard earned money that paid for these houses. The grand and sometimes tragic stories of those women describe the challenges they rose to in times when no one had ever heard of the term, feminism. The film was shot just in time to feature the last three true Alexandrians, who had worked in Egypt. It also relies on the accounts from the generation of their children living in the Vipava valley, and on the children they were paid to raise, and who are now scattered across the globe. The shooting of the film took two years; it was shot at various locations in Slovenia, Italy, Egypt, Great Britain, and in the United States of America.