José has spent his entire life on the streets of the ever-bustling megacity São Paulo, where other homeless people, beggars, drug addicts, and muggers make everyday life a constant struggle for survival. As if that weren’t enough, the rain fails to come, and the city is on the verge of running out of clean drinking water.
One day, a fruit plantation manager gets stuck in one of the city’s numerous traffic jams, strikes up a conversation with José, and offers him a job. José sees this as his golden opportunity to escape life as a homeless person, and soon after, he and his friend Thiago set off for the Amazon rainforest, where the plantation is located.
Meanwhile, the city they’ve left behind grows increasingly parched. On the plantation, they meet Alice, a Greenpeace activist, who makes them aware that not everything is as it should be, either on the plantation or in the rainforest.