Téo, a solitary medical student burdened by the care of his paraplegic mother, becomes infatuated with Clarice, an aspiring screenwriter he meets at a barbecue. When she rejects his advances, he resorts to an extreme measure: drugging and kidnapping her. He forces Clarice—sedated and trapped as his passenger—on a road trip through the very locations she scripted in her screenplay, attempting to awaken her love through repetition and manipulation.

As São Paulo erupts in an unprecedented wave of violence, a lawyer with underworld ties must strike a deal with the police to rescue her kidnapped niece.