Twenty two year old Ismael only thinks about traveling to the US. He grows up with the love and care of his grandmother Mariana, a midwife and ancestral healer, after his parents emigrated from Ecuador. After Ismael agrees on a price with the coyote to be smuggled northward, his best friend Luz returns to Ecuador after eight years of living abroad. Luz's perspective fills Ismael with doubts about his decision to immigrate. The two friends criss cross the Andes by car, along the way they meet various characters and are exposed to stories and legends that will raise troubling questions for Ismael about his destiny.