When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to work in the United States, he promises to return with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. Instead, his wife joins him and Reyna and her siblings are depositied in the already overburdened household of their stern, unsmiling grandmother. The three siblings band together to combat the pain of abandonment. When their mother returns at last, Reyna will make her own journey to live with her father.
