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Luis, along with his son Esteban, travels to a rave held in the deserts of southern Morocco in search of his missing daughter, Mar. A subgroup of ravers tells them that another rave is taking place deeper in the desert afterwards, and that Mar could be there. When a group of soldiers arrives to stop the rave and order European ravers to be evacuated, the subgroup breaks away in two vans, with Luis, Esteban and their dog Pipa following suit in their compact van. Radio reports that armed conflict between two countries has commenced, which soon escalates into a World War III-like event.

The ravers, consisting of Stef, Jade, Tonin, Bigui, and Josh, attempt to dissuade Luis and Esteban to no avail. Heading south to a location “close to Mauritania”, the group encounters mishaps and grow closer. They share food and fuel, cross a river together in their vehicles, nurse Pipa back to health when she falls ill after eating the ravers’ LSD-contaminated feces, and Tonin does a musical number while improvising a puppetry show using his leg stump. While crossing a mountain pass, one of the vans is stuck in a rut. The group manages to free the vehicle, but amid their celebration Luis’s van rolls backwards off a cliff with Esteban and Pipa inside, killing them both.

The remaining group members drive further into the desert looking for help, coming across a nomadic herder who runs off when approached. A grief-stricken Luis walks into the desert alone; he is rescued by Jade and Stef. Looking to lift the group’s spirits, Jade asks them to use a psychoactive drug and improvises a rave in the desert with two loudspeakers. While in a trance, she dies in an explosion after stepping on a land mine. Trying to reach Jade, Tonin steps on another mine and is killed.

Realising that they are in the middle of a minefield, the survivors are determined to reach a presumably mine-free rocky area some 60 metres away. They send one empty van forward, trying to secure a safe path; the van explodes after hitting a mine. They repeat the operation with the second van, but the van veers off course when it activates a second mine and is destroyed after hitting a third, failing to create the path they intended. Unfazed, Luis walks straight forward and reaches the area successfully. Bigui attempts to do the same but dies after stepping on a mine. With great hesitation, Stef and Josh, carrying Jade’s dog in hands, follow suit with their eyes shut and safely reach Luis. Earlier a railway was briefly seen; the movie ends with the three survivors crossing the desert on the open wagons of an ore train along with other people.