When Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home after a three-year prison sentence, he finds his family transformed. His wife is hiding an affair, and his teenage son, Michael, has become Vanessa (poignantly played by Harmony Santana, who was undergoing her own gender transition during the filming). Can Enrique find the strength to accept his son for who he has become, or will he cling to his conceptions of masculinity and revert to the patterns of his criminal past? Despite its brutality, this Sundance favorite is a touching story of acceptance in the tough, unforgiving world of the Bronx.