Ignacio’s light has dimmed, leaving his teenage daughter, Valentina, to raise herself in the wake of her mother Alma’s death. Valentina aches to discover the details of her mother’s drowning and for her father to snap out of his depression. But Ignacio spends listless afternoons smoking cigarettes in long blonde wigs, haunted not only by matrimonial guilt, but by memories of a young man he once loved and betrayed. From Ignacio’s tragic past emerges the luminous queen of Bogotá’s queer underground, Mamadora Eléctrica, the wise travesti who he first met when he was just a shy country boy. With Alma gone, Mamadora steps in as a mother figure to Valentina the way she once did for the girl’s father. But as an expert in Travesti Lore, she fears the worst: that Ignacio’s self-destruction may have unleashed a curse on them all.