Galicia, 1853. Galicia, 1853. The wettest winter in history has destroyed the crops, and a cholera epidemic begins to wreak havoc among the population. Orestes, Tísico, Rañeta, Trasdelrío, Comido, Tomás from Coruña and many other boys who want for a better future for themselves and their families decide to leave their homes and go to Cuba to earn a living in its sugar cane plantations. But that trip has an ordeal in store for them that their innocent minds would have never been able to anticipate. These shockingly beautiful, hypnotic and evocative pages, as far as possible from official reports and cold analysis, give voice to the silent victims of this terrible event that at the time was a big scandal and that memory cannot ignore.