In pre-Revolutionary Cuba, a senator attempts suicide by shooting himself in the stomach, leaving him unconscious but stable. To figure out the cause, his wife looks back on the harrowing moments that changed the trajectory of their marriage.

Accompanied by her new American husband, a fox (demon) spirit from China moves to Brooklyn, New York where she must navigate the social scene with his over-bearing friends while dealing with painful memories and feelings of loss, loneliness and aimlessness in her new environment.

A retired woman's sanity is tested as little chores are mysteriously completed around her home, as if by a ghost. These small, unwelcome miracles call to mind a mysterious and traumatic event almost a year prior.