Isle de France, 1780. Two enslaved men escape into the forest, pursued by the hunters sent to bring them back. But the deeper they run, the more the forest seems to hide something, a presence born from the violence this land has endured.
In 1994 Mauritius, an approaching cyclone traps a family inside their home. As the storm rages outside, unspoken trauma and terrifying home dynamics tighten, driving them toward a breaking point.