The Father I Never Knew follows the romance of a worldly bon vivant and Costa Rican ingenue as revealed in a cache of lover letters from another era. A serendipitous discovery of the letters takes Vicki McGrath on a long-awaited journey with her father.
As the Great War concludes, multilingual Alberto Moreno pursues oil interests throughout the Americas, repeatedly drawn away from his beloved Hilda. Whether crossing Mexico threatened by rebellion, participating in antics aboard steamships crossing the equator or climbing the altiplano of Peru by rail, no adventure proved as captivating as the ardor and tenderness expressed in his letters.