Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, 1948. Four days before Christmas, Setico a 12-year-old boy must take a train in search of his father. A trip that will reveal the forgotten memories of this banana enclave and the murder of six political prisoners in a place known as Devil's Elbow.

Lorna is a young woman from a low-income background who loses her job and her home when millionaire Frederick Velasquez makes a corrupt deal with Mayor Maria Fonseca. Now with no legal way to get her home back, she must move heaven and earth to recover what she has lost.