Aa team of forensic investigators in the Peruvian countryside digs up the remains of those murdered during the brutal Fujimori era of the 1980s and 1990s. The process of identifying one particular set of bones becomes an agonizing experience for the woman who claims they belong to her husband and for the investigator who has to go by the facts. Suffering, injustice, and peace of mind are pitted against scientific truth, with no easy answers.