For over-worked Manhattan lawyer Martha Warren, taking the ashes of her Cuban uncle to Havana for burial was not supposed to end in a searing examination of her life choices. When Manolo wrote to her from Miami shortly before he died, she agreed to help, driven by the need to reconcile losses of her own. Now, staring down into the cold darkness of his tomb, Martha learns the most valuable lesson of her life - that what she has doesn't matter. And what she doesn't have - the white-hot love of a family - is an emptiness she must fill. In Havana, she meets Manolo's cousin, Piedad, the one family...