I slutningen af 1800-tallet får operafantasten Fitzcarraldo en vision om, at han skal bygge et operahus dybt inde i Amazonas regnskov. Alle undtagen hans tro følgesvend, bordelmutteren Molly, anser ham for at være gal. Men Fitzcarraldo begiver sig sejrssikkert ind i junglen ombord på et gammelt rustent dampskib. Han støder dog på noget af en forhindring, da et bjerg ligger mellem ham og hans drøm. For at nå sit mål bestemmer han sig for at slæbe hele båden over bjerget.

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and 1896, depended on the labor exploitation of the local indigenous populations, provides an insight into the cultural, social and political situation in Brazil.

In 1946, in Soror city, three different stories intersect amid macabre events. While detectives Thomas and Carlos work in the unsolved cases of the mysterious body found in a tree and Serena Caires disappearance, those three stories get together suggesting the motivations of those respective crimes.