Twenty-eight-year-old Nina Barrionuevo finds out her birth father, Augusto, from whom she has not heard in eight years, is fainting, passing out, going in and out of the emergency room somewhere in Argentina. She gets his cell phone number and calls him after buying non-refundable airline tickets to Buenos Aires.
Her Dad swears at her, tells her not to come, and hangs up.
She turns to her stepfather Will Maas and says, ÒI just spend my whole life savings to go down to see him, and he hangs up on me.Ó
This is the story of NinaÕs search for her father, a search that began decades before this phone call.