Brazil 1990s

A problematic social issue, a unit called to respond.

A man struggles to right his wrong.

"If I had said 'no,' instead of 'yes' when they asked me to do this thing, then maybe I would have turned out a hero instead of what I've become.

We were trained, hired with the promise of a good wage, to take care of a problem, to get things under control. As a man, I needed to succeed for myself, for my family living in a cycle of poverty in the sertão, the backlands. The earnings proved excellent, and far outweighed the promises made by the controlling peasant guerrillas. But the other part of it… If I knew then what I know now…

I can't live with myself…

I can't live.

If I could take it back. Everything I've done-

Ach, who could do such things? And if one could, then who would forgive such things?"

This is the story of one man's dark path to redemption.