Soli is 18 and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the U.S.-Mexico border. Weeks later, she arrives in Berkeley, Calif., dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. Kavya is a mostly contented chef at a UC-Berkeley sorority house when the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone. When Soli is detained, her infant son comes under Kavya's care. As Kavya learns to be a mother, she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else's child.