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After the incomprehensible death of her only son and best friend, young mother Carmen faces a path to self re-discovery.

In 1982, the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in southern Mexico, buried the Zoque indigenous town of Guayabal. After 38 years, the owners of Nuevo Guayabal rebuild their lives while the volcano and the old village lurk under the brushwood. Trinidad, a poet born on the day of the eruption, has dreams which spark a collective effort in his community to unearth their old home.

In a black site in an unnamed country, an interrogation is taking place. Neither the prisoner nor his questioner have been told the interrogation's purpose. Both men dream to escape.