Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when her mother confesses a long-held secret: Monica's father is not the man who raised her. In her despair, Monica wants to speak with only one person: her ex-boyfriend of five years, Manny. She can't help but worry, though, what this says about her relationship with her fiance and father of her unborn child. Monica's search for the truth leads her to the early eighties when her parents arrived from Cuba on the Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous seventies, 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.