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Thirty-five years later, on a Good Friday night, Raphael appears to Luis with comfort and wisdom to bring healing to the guilt and anguish Luis suffered from his father’s death.
Due to a mix-up and Luis’ inability to talk, instead of comforting him after his terrible ordeal, his family turns on him calling him a coward and blaming him for his father’s death.
When his dad suffers a heart attack in the mountains with darkness closing in and a pack of coyotes on the prowl, Luis must find a way to save his dad.
Luis discovers his own inner Captain Herrera as he finds himself surrounded by some young gangbangers who want his help learning to box, and find a friendship with Luis that opens new doors for them.
A vivid dream and his daughter’s quinceañera, combine to offer Luis a fork in the road that leads him to rediscover the love he met at the border in 1994.
Luis is forced to choose between his integrity and being abused and exploited by his biggest client and that leads to a discussion about immigration in the United States.
After discovering that the green card he procured through an attorney for $23,000 is a forgery, Luis and his young family are forced back into the shadows.
Continually bullied and abused by his five older brothers, Luis hears about a land called the United States and at six years old sets out to find his way there, even if it means he needs to be kidnapped. (Luis is the youngest boy in both pictures.)
After living four years in the United States on an expired visa, Luis returns to Mexico to deliver a much-needed car to his mother. Now he must find his way back across the border in Tijuana on December 19, 1994.
