In a vast public works project in West Africa, Horn, the construction site manager, and Cal, a young engineer, share lodging behind the fences that envolve all the compound. Leone, Horn’s recent bride, comes to join them the same night that a man appears at the fence. His name is Alboury. He is determined to stay there until they return the body of his brother to him, who was killed on the site.

Mike, a music producer, shares an intense dual relationship with Clarissa, his fiancée and protégé artist. As professional tensions seem to push them apart, the true cause of their breakup is revealed: a personal secret Mike was hiding, far more devastating than their artistic disagreements.