Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

A day in the life of Sandra, a 28-year-old black woman whose daily life is strongly marked by the presence of three men: her son, her husband, and her father, and intertwined by the force of ancestry and the sacred.