A forensic anthropologist uncovers nine pre-Columbian masks that are very much alive — and each one wants something back.
Dr. Rosa Ixchel Quiñones is called to a Oaxacan dig site where nine ancient Zapotec ritual masks have resurfaced — inexplicably preserved. As she catalogues them, she realises each mask is bound to a living descendant, and that an extraction company is prepared to kill to monetise the find. A race against time through mythology and modernity.
