“I Can't Do Nothing” deals with the relationship between Erika and her mother, who returns to her daughter's house in the interior of Minas Gerais in a region known for intense mining. Ill, the mother suffers from a terminal illness. The days pass, relationships become more difficult, and the cinema operates. It is a labyrinthine reading of the relationship between mother and daughter, forming a kind of mobile mystery, the only way out there to look where nothing can be seen: death.