Rio Branco, Acre, an Amazon city near the border with Peru and Bolivia, has been suffering the violent impacts of recent changes in trafficking routes, which have arrived with violence in the Brazilian Amazon. In this scenario, the lives of three young childhood friends intertwine and ultimately, they find themselves in a common tragedy.
"Cães" proposes a reflection around the socio-cultural heritage of the brazillian land structure, specifically the northeastern sertão, in which it has its support, in a system of land concentration, in the hands of a minority represented by the old rural oligarchies.
In Pau Brasil, a small, lost village in the heart of Brazil, the families of Joaquim and Nives live side by side. Despite living in the same perverse structure of social oppression, they deal with life in radically different ways.
