It is the summer of 1963, with stories of past political violence in Colombia and hints of the coming assassination of JFK in the United States. Laura, a young North American woman, visits Bogota with her Colombian husband Andres and their two small children, though strange, seemingly mystical messages have warned her not to. Conversations with her husband's "mad" sister Francisca, and Senor Vargas, a revolutionary jewelry maker who lives in the dismal hotel run by Andres's mother, help Laura come to grips with the problems of poverty and "lost children" in her husband's country. Realizing...