In the 1980s, on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde, the small community of Ribeira Funda decided to abandon the area, frightened by a series of tragic events they attributed to malevolent forces residing nearby. Mr. Quirino was the only resident who refused to leave. For four decades, he declined help from local authorities and friends to relocate. Today, Quirino lives in a ghost village, with only his pets for company. Faced with an uncertain future and the weight of isolation, illness, and old age, he is, for the first time in his life, beginning to consider the possibility of leaving the only place he has ever known.