The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women’s rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal dictatorships in South America. Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to follow her own path. As she considers moving to California to join Mexican American activist César Chávez’s movement to improve the working conditions of migrant farmworkers, Katia receives an unexpected gift from her father: a round-trip ticket to Mexico City. Bring back your mother, he says; tell her, her children need her. But getting her mother, Tina, back to Chicago. won’t be easy. Katia must learn to navigate a liberated version of the woman who raised her in a new country where she is now hawking supposedly superior cleaning products, called Donna Clean Well.