Julio and Manny were raised under the tyranny of their single, ex-boxer father who immigrated from Puerto Rico. As Julio's 18th birthday approaches, he and his father argue incessantly, and it blows up on the eve of the big day; On Julio's birthday, Julio is nowhere to be found. This sends Manny on a mission to find his brother somewhere in the city of Brooklyn at the behest of his father. Asking around about Julio to his friends, Manny knows where he must be, but Julio refuses to come out of hiding. For weeks, Manny gets rejected by his brother's friend who claims Julio is gone; but one day Manny rushes in while the friend is gone and finally confronts his brother. Asking him about where he's been, Manny discovers that Julio recently found their mother and spoke with her. She told him that their father took them away from her because he didn't want them to grow up thinking they were Black. So he instilled Puerto Rican culture in them, from Spanish to the way they were raised. Learning more about his family, and finally reconnected with his brother, Manny feels closer to his family than ever before.