Yveete is a twenty-two year old Mexican American female living in Texas. Yveete has great dissonance regarding her identity as a Mexican American. Yveete decides to accept a ride home from Raymond, the local drug dealer to get back at her mother. This ride home results in disaster when an irate customer of Ray's demands his drug money back -at gunpoint. Miranda decides that Yveete will be sent to Mexico with her mother. She meets her grandmother Luisita, who is not at all what she expected. She is an honest, open woman who befriends Yveete.