​The boy Cicero comes across his father, Jonas, dead of a massive heart attack. His mother is filming a documentary in the Amazon rain forest and returns home to São Paulo for the funeral. Upon her arrival, Cicero convinces his mother to take his father's ashes to his hometown in the northeast part of the country. This is the starting point of Acqua Movie, a road movie where mother and son try to reinvent the narrative of affection under the scorching sun of the northeastern semiarid terrain, crisscrossed by channels transposing the waters of the São Francisco River. ​