After crossing into the U.S. with no household to talk of, younger Cecilia finds herself within the cost of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant lengthy separated from his family. Francisco operates a method station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed within the California desert. Whereas he copes with the alienation of dwelling alone in a overseas land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty panorama, accompanied solely by her fantastical creativeness and distant reminiscences of motherly love.
