70-year-old Virginia shares her ancestral home with her ever-loyal maid Delia. Delia is marrying her long-time boyfriend Rene and tearfully confides in Virginia that she wants to return to her parents in the province to start a new life with him. Haunted by a past that Virginia tries to conquer--her only son Sonny Boy who disappeared years ago-- what follows shows a portrait of a woman and a mother trying to juggle the sad realities of life in a cycle of life and death.