"... Another stray bullet, another young man from the outskirts killed. The family demands justice. The press lashes out. A thirsty prosecutor. The Maltese police officer is indicted. Devastated, he leaves the force and comes across a desperate mother with the disappearance of her 11-year-old daughter in the vicinity of a mysterious building."

Mr. Olimpo do Rosário, the owner of a failed circus who wanders through empty lands, one day returns home and confronts his childhood traumas.