Curiosity about a strange heirloom —an ancient 3-ounce lead fishing sinker he inherited from his Spanish immigrant grandfather— is what drives the fictionalized narrator of this documentary to travel from his New York home to Tampa, Florida. And before long, thanks to the amazing cast of Tampa old-timers he encounters there, the narrator finds himself immersed in the sights, sounds, textures, tastes and smells of a world on the verge of disappearing. It is the world of Spanish immigrants, who arrived in Tampa by the thousands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and helped transform the once sleepy town into the “Cigar Capital of the World.” The narrator’s grandfather had emigrated from Spain to Cuba and from Cuba to Tampa, before finally settling and starting a family in New York. For decades, the fishing weight occupied a place of honor, first on the family radio, then on the family television. And even though everyone knew that the sinker was some kind of souvenir or lucky charm from the grandfather’s years in Tampa, nobody ever thought of asking him about its significance. And now it is too late.