The story of a family trip that becomes an emotional moral inquiry into migration and justice. A marriage in crisis travels with their two children from New York to the border with Mexico by car. While he researches the Apaches' past and she documents the arrival of migrant children at the border, the children listen to the stories they are told, blending them together. In this way, the family trip becomes an adventure, as well as an emotional account of memory and the fragility of family bonds.