Filmed mainly in the building, actual squatters act alongside well-known Brazilian actors such as José Dumont and Suely Franco.

Filming mostly inside the squat, the camera follows the different characters as they go about their daily routines of cooking food, skyping family members, attending meetings and interacting with each other.

[2] The book explains that the film-makers helped to build a vegetable garden and taught camera workshops.

Cineuropa said that Caffé reveals "with a brutal candour tempered by humour and affection, a glimpse of the everyday lives of the protagonists".

[4] Hollywood Reporter concluded that "this uneven film delivers a potent combination of empathy and food for thought, not unlike a coconut thrown at the establishment's head".