Carlos Jaramillo was twenty-two and about to embark on a trip to Old Havana when he found out he was Colombian-Mexican-American and not Cuban-Mexican-American, like he had thought up to that point. Carlos still went on the trip, which no longer held a homecoming significance. It was in this state of mind that he met Erislandy, a Cuban pigeon racer who’s known throughout Old Havana for dyeing his birds fluorescent colors.