Alma nestles solemnly against the tree her mother planted long before she died. Soon it will be sold, along with the rest of the plantation. Paz, her older half-sister from the city, is already sorting out the paperwork and getting the sale underway. Meanwhile, Alma is doing everything she can so that she and her grandmother can stay here, where her mother’s memory lives on. A chapter closes for three women – and in the process, the youngest comes of age.