Radical activist Luba Gold goes underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba's collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind an envelope to be safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from hiding, she discovers that the FBI sting was orchestrated by an activist friend who became an FBI informant. In the changed era of the 1990s, Luba must decide whether to forgive her betrayer.