Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her husband will leave her. Then doctors try a revolutionary treatment which feeds electrical impulses to her leg muscles - allowing her to ride a bicycle once again and so go out for bike rides with her family. Her marriage survives and she and her husband end up closer together than before.

In 1957, Ghana was the first African country to become independent of its colonial rulers, in this case the British. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of what in 1960 became the Republic of Ghana, called on Africans from all over the world to come to Ghana to help build the new nation. The most important aim was to "undo the damage caused by the slave trade" as filmmaker Shirikiana Aina expressed it in her documentary Footprints of Pan Africanism. Several people speak in Aina’s film about the reconstruction of Ghana and Nkrumah, who was deposed in 1966, offering room for their frequently gripping personal stories. These are often marked by racism, the emerging civil rights movement and what it’s like to be black and live elsewhere. For many, returning to Africa was like going home.

Luis Madero is a young professor of History at a prestigious high school. It is essentially phobic. Until Camila arrives and introduces herself as the assistant of Don Federico Madero, her grandfather. Luis does not want to know anything with that man who leaves him to look for him. Camila notices Luis of the death of Don Federico and the delivery of his unique inheritance; an old cane. From this moment strange things begin to happen in Luis's life; Someone is watching, they are following him and both will begin a path that puts them in the writings of Mariano Moreno, in the footsteps of the Secretary.