Following two stories of broken hearts among the youth of an East-Timorese village, this film explores local forms of conflict resolution and their effects on kinship and family in contemporary Timor-Leste. The film offers a visually dynamic backdrop to understanding key anthropological issues, including the importance of gift exchanges to the making of personhood and repairing social relations among local groups; the strong relation between justice and signs of sacredness; the role of local authorities in mediating between culture and the state; the emergence of a sense of self and the ideology of romantic love; and the challenges for balancing local forms of justice and the respect for human rights in a newborn country.