After losing a memento from her late mother, Valentina recalls a difficult time in her life where she struggled to find her purpose and embrace her Latinidad. She delves into her memory and relives her time at an elite private high school during her father’s deportation and her subsequent estrangement from her mother and her own identity.
With college applications, lawyer fees, social and familial obligations, Valentina watches as her younger self, Val, struggles to cope under the looming threat of her imminent future and uses poetry as a means of escape from her own mind. By immersing herself into her memories, Valentina rediscovers everything and everyone that made her the woman she is today.