As Luz tells her daughter Alba a story about her doll Clara she is leaving her a legacy, a legacy of basic and fundamental life-skills. Alba is a story about women and that unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters. Luz and Alba are living an extremely difficult situation and they share their perspectives, fears, memories, and happiness, along with so many other things, which serves to emphasize the profoundness of the love they share. ''There comes a time when we must leave the nest and start to hunt on our own, a time when we have to start fending for ourselves, because something is waiting for us at the edge of the wood and it is our destiny to march out and meet it head on.