America a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and swindling, born and bred in Portugal. Fernanda, the ex wife, who ten year's passed decides to drop by, is the gang leader, an Andalusian Spaniard. Victor has to decide which women to follow, Liza cannot really leave him, Fernanda doesn't really want to stay. The six year old kid hangs everybody by a string. Eastern European newcomers give new business perspectives that are going to rock their small world by the beach: Cova do Vapor. A chaotic neighborhood of precarious housing located at Lisbon's gates, where the Tagus River meets the Atlantic, where fishermen and retired factory workers coexist. An obscure little place, where everything suddenly changes, even the weather. After a violent storm...

1917年第一次世界大战，一名梦想在法国前线为祖国葡萄牙奋力一搏的年轻士兵，不料被派去莫桑比克作战。然而在这趟神秘未知的旅途中，他逐渐被荒野吞噬，走进虚无的迷途与困顿之中，经历一幕幕交织的无穷噩梦。改编自导演若昂·努诺·平托祖父的真实经历，以非线性叙事将战时伤痛铺陈开来，大量自然光线的全景画幅展现非洲草原的广袤与人类的渺小，由此引发思考，幅员辽阔的土地上，战争所毁灭的，仅仅是人性吗？