As a teenaged girl, Lara Canedo was tom from her roots when, at her mother's insistence, she left her native Havana for Spain as one of thousands of Cuban refugees of the late 1960s. Lara now finds herself, a mature adult, returning home -- but to a dilapidated capital that no longer resembles the city she left behind, and a homeland that has been with her only subconsciously during her years in exile.
