Samantha Avila

A 99-year-old woman recounts her memories of the family that abandoned her when the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso took control of her town, forcing her to sell her dreams as stories to fulfill the promise that would reunite them on her hundredth birthday.

Alina, a shy fourteen year old with a secret setup to flee school in search of her estranged mother, soon finds her plan hampered by the unexpected presence of her half little brother, a boy named Leo, that will teach her a thing or two along the way.