In one of Rio’s most violent slums, British man Luke Dowdney runs a boxing school and NGO offering kids an alternative to the drug trade. Fighting for Peace focuses on two of the schools most talented boxers, Sugar (aged 15) and Douglas (aged 14) who each face their personal fights at home. Sugar has to support his entire family from the money he earns with boxing. For Douglas boxing is the only way he can save his sister Sueli (aged 17) from Crackland, a dark place where crackheads prostitute and beg to feed their habits.