1942. In the middle of northeast Brazil, two men meet: Johann, a German who has escaped from the war, and Ranulpho, a Brazilian leaving the drought that hunts the region. Driving from village to village, they show a film to the inhabitants who have never before experienced cinema in order to sell a brand new “miracle” medicine. Continuing to cross dusty roads in the old-fashioned hinterland, they search for new horizons in their lives.