Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.

In a small town in the pampas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, economic and agrarian changes are directly affecting the lives of small farmers. Nepomuceno, a man who has worked all his life raising cattle, suddenly finds himself threatened by a large soy producer who is interested in his land. The conflict becomes more intense when it affects members of his family and old Nepo has to defend his land and his family at all costs.

In a small town in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), close to the border with Uruguay, crimes against children occur and no one can solve them. The town makes a pact of silence about the events, believing them to be the result of some kind of curse, but this scenario changes abruptly when a documentary film crew goes to the place to decipher the mystery and ends up being involved in it.