Alberto, a gardener who works in the city, travels to his hometown to attend the funeral of his deceased father, who has been killed by a policeman. Upon arrival, he finds that there is to be no burial, but instead a three-day ritual to mourn and celebrate his father’s death. Now a devotee of the Protestant church, Alberto considers this ritual, with its Catholic and African roots, to be satanic and immoral and wholly against his new belief system. Over the course of the celebrations, Alberto faces setback when his family announces their true desire: that he avenge his father’s death. Overwhelmed, Alberto becomes lost in the repetition of small town life, his thoughts confront different ideas of God and the notion of murder presents itself as the only solution that will restore order.