Adela Santiago is 13 and lives on the outskirts of Havana with her family. But something is amiss: the students on her student are disappearing, her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a hotel bombing. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba.

It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba. An insight into what it is like to be young when bad things happen and it is not your fault.