Roberto Ronan is a musician and piano teacher who receives the news that his father is sick. He returns to his hometown and spends some time in the house where he grew up. There the conflict that Roberto has with his younger brother, Henrique, grows at the same time as revelations about his family history are exposed.

Kanto, a small time drug dealer trying to get off the streets whose long absent father Cormac, an industrial school survivor, returns home looking for forgiveness and reconciliation.