Clara Perez, a journalist orphaned as an infant, is struggling to make a name for herself as a reporter on an unnamed island reminiscent of the Philippines when a student riot starts a deadly fire in an obscure part of town. Sensing a story, Clara investigates and finds that her roots (hidden by the nuns who took her into their orphanage) are irrevocably entwined with the events and lives now unfolding before her.

"Fawcett Columbine."