Writer/director Aaron Fernandez plunges the audience into the world of Ivan, a 14-year-old living in Mexico, who is sure that a happy life awaits in the United States. Under the friendly tutelage of his crooked uncle, Ivan begins stealing hubcaps and fenders to pay a “Coyote” for help with an illegal border crossing. Soon the teen’s aptitude for the criminal life lands him in the employ of a dangerous gangster. Ivan begins falling deeper into a world of crime that was meant to be his ticket out.