It's pretty monotonous work that Aurora has to do day after day: She takes the products from the shelves of the dispatch warehouse, scans the barcode and puts them in the trolley, with which she slowly moves through the aisles. The working conditions are not inhumane, but they are bleak for the young woman from Portugal who works in Scotland. Her social life in an accommodation centre for migrant workers, whose rent she can barely afford due to her precarious job, is also dull. She has no contacts to her fellow workers, except for a colleague from portugal – no one to talk to during lunch or in the shared kitchen. Only her new polish flatmate invites her to tag along with his clique. At a job interview, for which she sacrifices her few free hours, she suddenly realises how work has taken possession of her and has degraded her to a robot. 

Inspired by Ken Loach's "kitchen sink realism", whose production company co-produced the film, modern working conditions of an industry, on which we all depent, are inspected. On Falling is a precisely observed study of alienation and isolation that grows into kafkaesque dimensions with its subtle tones.