Doctoral candidate Leah Fine goes to Peru to record a dying culture. What began as a year of research living with and becoming a part of a small but vibrant community outside the world as modernity knows it, becomes a year of incredible adventure. Nothing is really as it seems. What was hidden from view is exposed, and time becomes a precious commodity as the people decide their own fate. Leah is the catalyst; Dr. Morales and Tan become the unsuspecting agents of change in their own world.