Tainá is a 5-year-old orphan Indios girl who dreams of becoming a warrior and discovering her true origins. Along the way, she makes unexpected friends such as Laura, a lost city girl, and Gobi, a boy as geeky as he is a loner. They learn to overcome their mutual differences through the hardships of their eventful journey. Tainá in particular will have to fight the ancestral enemy of her family, Jurupari, intent on destroying the forest.