Director Fellipe Barbosa (CASA GRANDE) casts professional actors Joćo Pedro Zappa and Caroline Abras to reconstruct the last two months in the life of school friend Gabriel Buchmann, a finance student who took off a year in 2009 before graduate school for sustainable travel to research poverty in Africa only to disappear in the mountains of Malawi and be discovered weeks after the search having died of exposure. Traveling to Africa, Barbosa recruits several people who actually met, traveled with, and provided hospitality to Buchmann - many of whom were unaware of his death at the time or even when Barbosa met them despite their access to social media - to help tell his story. We meet Buchmann (Zappa) staying with a Masai family and being made an honorary tribesman and taught to hunt. He continues on his travels before reconnecting with his girlfriend Cristina (Abras) whom he escorts on the more conventionally tourist-y diversions like safaris, museums, and the market. Although this may arguably seem like a commercial concession of tourist board scenery and some sex scenes, it also introduces some depth into Buchmann's character, characterized by Cristina as a neocon who might not have been interested in poverty at all had he not failed to get into Harvard and had to settle for UCLA. These scenes which show Buchmann boastful of his traveling experiences and haggling with tourist venues about charges show a boorish side of him. When Cristina departs and Buchmann is left alone, he finds it as difficult as the viewer to get back into the rhythms and routines of sustainable tourism with his search for reciprocal services seeming like he is asking for handouts. One even starts to wonder if his impulsiveness and reckless decisions as he scales the mountain are a reflection of that side of his character we saw during the second act or part of some sort of death wish when he felt like he had failed to get into Harvard (having boasted to Cristina of having been educated in the best schools throughout his life). While the film does not attempt to portray Gabriel in the same manner as the press at the time, it does show that he left a generally good impression on those he encountered along the way in spite of what may have happened in his final days.