杰克（艾沃·皮茨克 Ivo Pietzcker 飾）跟弟弟一起和母親過著相依為命的活，杰克的母親是一個(gè)極為不責(zé)任的女人，白天工作結(jié)束后她便喬裝打扮外出找樂子，照弟弟的全部責(zé)任就落在了杰克人的身上。杰克對母親身邊經(jīng)更換的男友抱有強(qiáng)烈的敵意，子之間的感情因此十分脆弱。 某日，杰克的弟弟不幸被燙，社會福利機(jī)構(gòu)勒令母親必須兩個(gè)孩子之一送往福利院，母選擇了杰克。在福利院里，杰日日夜夜的思念擔(dān)心著母親和弟，終于，逃跑成功的他返回中，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)母親丟下了弟弟不所蹤。帶著弟弟，杰克踏上了滿了危險(xiǎn)和未知的尋母之旅?
Killian is a young man who has never left the remote mountains of Huesca (Spain) which saw him grow up. In 1953, he travels back to the exotic Equatorial African island of Fernando Poo, in Spanish Guinee, where he was born, to work in a cacao plantation alongside his father and his brother. During 20 years in this island, until the troubled days of independence, he will undertake a journey towards maturity and knowledge, but will also have to deal with pain and loss.
