Juan Garcia is a boy on the edge of manhood residing in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His function fashions couldn't be additional aside: his older sister Angie, a single mother, struggling to realize a foothold within the white company world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an performing profession enjoying gang bangers since his launch from jail. With the longer term on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can solely consider ladies and is unaware of the judicial system's onerous line stance in opposition to gang affiliation.