This is a Salvadoran-American coming of age story. Jay, a talented 14-year-old artist is trying to understand the journey of his life he is destined to take. He lives with a strict single mother, Alma, who is expecting another child. She expresses nothing but tough love to Jay. Without a father being present, the struggle to maintain a good and stable living becomes harder each present day. To Jay there is no family. So Jay becomes frustrated and rebels against his mother and her rules.
—Junior Gonzalez