Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-old civil war in which past and present intertwine. Nayola sets out to search for her husband, who has gone missing at the apex of the war. Decades later, the war has fizzled out, but she is yet to return. Yara becomes a subversive teenage rap artist. Lelena tries to control her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their home.