Carlos is studying Medicine, living between books, exams and expectations. Yet it is in the secret world of melodies, words and imagination that he finds the place where he can truly breathe. In a country still discovering new sounds, he dares to trade the security of a white coat for the uncertainty of stages, songs and a dream greater than himself.

Caught between duty and desire, reason and intuition, fear and courage, Carlos forges his own path, driven by talent, humour, creative obsession and an almost luminous urgency to leave his mark.

A cinematic adaptation of the life of Carlos Paião.