Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."
Fourteen-year-old Cecilia worries that she will not discover her special gift before her Confirmation, especially after learning that she is expected to lift a curse tied to the village of St. Cecilia, Mexico.