Based on a book by Justin Torres that comes from a real life experience, the film by the US Jeremiah Zagar features three Puerto Rican brothers Manny, Joel and Jonah, living in a backward area of the United States called Utica. The story is about their complicity and their relationship with their parents: an affection often interrupted by furious quarrels, by the abandonment and return of an impulsive and unhappy father, and with all the repercussions this has on the balance of family at home. The children make their way in their childhood, but Jonah compared to his brothers growing begins a personal journey that is detached from the ideal masculine incarnated by his father and pursues the definition of his sensitivity, opening up to what he feels...
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