Catherine Barnes leaves home and cheating husband to explore the Guatemalan mountain town of Todos Santos. She brings her paints and adolescent son, hoping to find an intangible something, a new direction perhaps, and maybe help her son who has just failed the eighth grade. She does not expect that her journey will include almost losing her son to kidnappers, witnesssing a lynching that nearly ruins the town of Todos Santos, or rediscovering her own womanhood.
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