Cometierra

The earth that saw us grow up holds our footprints, but only Cometierra has the gift of swallowing it and knowing the whereabouts of those we have lost. She discovered this as a young girl, when she ate earth for the first time and, in a vision, realized that her father had murdered her mother. Once the neighborhood learns of her power, the doorstep of her home becomes crowded with families desperate to know what happened to their daughters, sisters, and mothers. As she becomes a sacred conduit between the living and the dead, each vision plunges her into a spiral of cut-short lives and the anguish of others—a burden no one could bear. A gift can be a curse, yet amidst the horror and the rage, love and the fight for justice make their way forward; and perhaps, in every handful of earth, she will also learn to sow a place for the living.