2028. For reasons unknown to men, the earth is slowly growing closer to the sun. The planet is now separated in two distinct zones: the North, barely livable, and the South, which has become too hot to be inhabited. In the heart of the Congo, a small group of soldiers witnesses the expansion of the southern forest.

While teenagers John and Tom, who live in a refugee camp in Guinea Conakry, go from housebreaking to robbery in order to survive, Satou, similarly to many other destitute young women, turns to the streets. Things go from bad to worse and Tom - soon followed by John - gets stuck in a downward spiral of extreme violence. Will Mémé their grandmother and also a refugee, be able to save them?