Mnica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Mnicas father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Mnica doesnt know what to believewhether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother watches nightly.

In her despair, Mnica wants to speak with only one person: her ex-boyfriend of five years, Manny. She cant help but worry, though, what this says about her relationship with her fianc and father of her unborn child.

Mnicas search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the pastthe early 80s, when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous 70s, a decade after Castros takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regimepeople like her mother and the man she claims is Mnicas real father.