Greetings from Mexico City, an oasis among vampires. When a jaded vampire on the run swoops into Domingo's life, the lonely garbage-collecting street child is just trying to survive the city's heavily patrolled streets. Atl, an ancestor of Aztec blood-drinkers, is intelligent, attractive, and extremely dangerous. Domingo is captivated. Atl wants to get out of the city swiftly to avoid the rival narco-vampire clan that is hunting her ferociously. Although Domingo isn't part of her plan, she gradually begins to like the gritty young man and his unmistakable charm. Local police and criminal lords begin closing in on her as the trail of corpses spreads behind her.c Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Atl and Domingo stand little chance at all of making it out alive before the city devours them all - but they are determined to try . .