In a fast-paced immigrant community, Huntington Park, a predominately Mexican neighborhood in Los Angeles, where dreams are often lost to economic survival, two young Chicanas, Yolanda and Mari contemplate life when they stir unexpected desires in each other.

When Yolanda meets her new neighbor, Mari Rodriguez, all they see in each other are their differences. As a sheltered, only-child to her older, immigrant parents, Yolanda's sole concern is securing her college-bound future. Street-wise Mari hustles to help her undocumented family stay above water. But despite Yolanda and Mari's contrasting approach to survival, Yolanda and Mari are soon brought together.