In northern Uganda, two decades of civil war have pushed hundreds of thousands of people into displacement camps, and the Patongo Primary School sits inside one of them. Directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix follow three students from that camp, Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, as their school's music and dance troupe qualifies for Uganda's national competition in Kampala, a contest against schools that never lived through the war at all. Dominic plays the xylophone and carries memories of being abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army; Rose and Nancy have lost parents to the conflict and speak about it directly to the camera between rehearsals. The film intercuts practice sessions, drumming and dance routines built from local tradition, with the children's individual accounts of what happened to their families, then follows the troupe to the festival grounds for the performance itself. There is no narrator interpreting events for the viewer; the competition provides the structure, and the children's testimony provides the content. The final scenes show them performing in Kampala, several days' travel from the camp they call home.