Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Monica’s father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Monica doesn’t know what to believe --- whether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother watches nightly. Monica’s search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the past: the early '80s when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous '70s, a decade after Castro’s takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regime --- people like her mother and the man she claims is Monica’s real father.