"In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds"--
When the mother who abandoned them returns to grieve her father, Daniel and Lucia, whose family is cursed, condemned to the pain of deprivation, betrayal, violence and love, find themselves hurtling toward an irrevocable breaking point that results in the unthinkable.