Actually, the young drug dealer Aimé just wants a customer to pay her outstanding bill. But then he is left alone with her daughter. Unexpectedly, a heartwarming, albeit temporary, bond develops between the two in the dreary apartment.

In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction.