One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school.
But as Luisa wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished..
Their quest: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a touring circus.
Together they head for Zipolite, the ‘Beach of the Dead’, a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will ‘promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery’.
Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tomas, a boy she barely knows.
One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school
