Lena, a white girl, and Ningo, a black boy raised by Lena's parents, grow up together in colonial Mozambique. Only the innocence of childhood will allow this friendship to continue when the storm of historical change comes crashing down on them. Twenty years later, in Maputo, Ningo receives a phone call from far away: Lena's mother is asking for his help. Lena has mysteriously disappeared in Lisbon...