Juan Garcia can be actually really a boy on the threshold of manhood residing in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His character units could not be farther apart: his elderly sister Angie, a single mom, unable to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who's fallen in a acting career playing gang bangers since his discharge from prison. With the long run on his doorstep, Juan, can be unaware of the system's hard line position against gang affiliation and like most boys, can only think of girls.