A fifty-year-old, Cuban-born, Chicago-raised, former liberal arts professor named Crystal Donaldson longs to write a literary masterpiece - her first novel - during a critical point of deteriorating health and personal awareness in her life. She harbors endless questions about her Cuban parents, the history of the Caribbean island she was born on, and the secrets the older generations of her family left buried in la Habana (Havana) before fleeing to the United States just a few months after her birth half a century ago. Crystal begins to interview her eccentric, exotic, entertaining...