Paco, a young man of21, is the son of a seamstress of modest means. Paco dreams of becoming an actor, but his mother has a desire of her own: to see her homeland, the Basque Country, one last time before dying. But the events of March 16, 1990 in Brazil – when president Fernando Collor announced the confiscation of the savings accounts of all Brazilians – dramatically change these plans. Paco is among the 800,000 who seek refuge abroad.
On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Alex, a young Brazilian woman, works in a bar in Lisbon. She lives with another Brazilian, Miguel, a musician.
