Galisiya, 1853 god. Samaya dozhdlivaya zima za vsyu istoriyu unichtozhila urozhay, a sredi naseleniya nachinaetsya opustoshitelnaya epidemiya holery. Otchayannye galisiytsy, mechtayuschie o luchshem buduschem dlya sebya i svoih semey, reshayut pokinut rodnye mesta i otpravitsya na Kubu, chtoby podzarabotat na saharnyh plantatsiyah. No eto puteshestvie gotovit im takie ispytaniya, kotorye ih prostodushnye umy ne smogli by dazhe voobrazit.
Eto podlinnaya istoriya semnadtsati soten yunoshey, kotorye otpravilis na Kubu v poiskah raboty i okazalis v rabstve po vole Urbano Feyhoo de Sotomayora, galisiytsa, obosnovavshegosya na ostrove.