In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey follows the stories Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin. She wants them to
vote the corrupt and tyrannical Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) out of power. Then Lourdes Shuler asks him to unite her with her sister, Lupe--the campesinos Virgin.