The young adult Emil grows up in a conservative family in a small town in the 1960s. Because his father wants to make him a "real man," it is not easy for Emil to accept his own personality and therefore homosexuality. He only finds refuge in art, mainly painting.

A road trip after graduating from high school is the setting of this independent feature film, in which four fundamentally different teenagers set off to Portugal together to find themselves, their purpose in life, and great freedom after school.