When sixteen-year-old Colette Holland moves with her family to Calexico, she discovers that this migration is a curse for her—a threat to her own existence—for she is considered as “cursed”, being born on February. 29th, a date known to most Calexico’s residents as “the cursed date”. No one born on this date was kept alive in the city, so could she be the only one who survives?
