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A boy's mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but disappearing herself once they get to Miami. As he grows, the boy embraces his queerness as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. His relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. As a young man, he ducks in and out of bed with different men, seeking something or someone. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he's become since he left, and who his mother is. He comes to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence, and her fierce love.