Joana is a 15-year-old who feeds her soul with literature and rock. She lives in Paris with her two brothers, mother and stepfather, who were forced into political exile. Her father “disappeared” when Joana was six, suspected to have been killed when imprisoned by the military dictatorship. In 1979 amnesty is granted in Brazil. Overnight and against Joana’s will, her family move back to Rio de Janeiro. In the city of her birth, and where her father disappeared, Joana begins to recover pieces from her fragmented childhood. Different countries and languages blend in violent or nebulous situations. Experiencing sensations from a history shaped by the political choices of her parents and her father’s death, Joana attempts to write her own story in the present tense.