A single mother struggles to raise her children on the poor outskirts of Santo Domingo. Tired of hustling in the streets, she decides to leave it all behind and illegally immigrate to Puerto Rico on an overcrowded wooden vessel.
Over the weekend, Andrea visits her father, Alberto, who suffers from Alzheimer's and wants to ride a mysterious white horse that, for some reason, Andrea feels has bad intentions towards her father and, before returning to her village, she wants to make it disappear.