When Juan Diego grows up, he will move to the United States and become a famous writer. But in Mexican childhood, the fate of the “junkyard reader” leads him—from the “House of Lost Children” orphanage—to the “Divine Circus,” with its trained lions and aerial gymnasts. Only Juan Diego understands that his younger sister Lupe is speaking—because she can read minds: “Usually she’s right about the past… She can’t read the future as accurately.” All the tragedies of the past are open to her—yet she tries to prevent the disaster that is still to come. And many years later, Juan Diego travels from New York to the Philippines, where his dreams and memories finally collide with what’s coming. Strangely enough, someone from the pair of mysterious beauties—mother and daughter—he met on the plane is always nearby…