From the author of the award-winning "Waiting on Zapote Street." Rio reunites with his wife, Laura, and their children in the United States after a forced separation that lasted eleven years. However, they are no longer the people they once were. How to reconstitute the family when time has changed them so much? The daughters are now teenagers, and the son is eleven. Rio has a dark past that Laura is just starting to uncover. None of them are prepared to face the obstacles that stand in their way.