It’s 2011 and young Yara, who lives with her grandmother Lelana, revels in writing and performing rap music. To her, it’s a more peaceful form of guerrilla action. Both are still processing the horrors of the conflict that plagued Angola for so long and coping with the 1995 disappearance of Yara’s mother Nayola after she went looking for her husband, a missing soldier. The arrival of an armed visitor wearing a jackal mask only exacerbates the situation, drawing out unreconciled emotions about the recent past.