In Kara Kara, a poor district of Zinder, Niger's second-largest city, young men join gangs called "palais," or palaces, in a place where schooling is scarce, jobs are scarcer, and Boko Haram's threat sits in the background. The film follows three people trying to find a way out. Bawa, a former gang member who now drives a motorbike taxi and has a child, talks on camera about the crimes he committed and carries scars on his body that he says he still has to live with. Siniya Boy, who belongs to a weightlifting "palais" ironically named Hitler, blames his path on one thing: lack of education. Cameras follow him to a prison fence where he talks with jailed gang members, and into the red-light district, where a sex worker shows scars worse than the men's own. Interviews are direct and unsentimental, letting the subjects explain their choices, their violence, and what recovery might look like in a city with few paths forward.