The film revolves around the fight for territorial control between drug traffickers and police forces and the devastating impact of this war on the lives of people living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.