Eddie Corazón, a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent and secret reader, attends an alternative high school in Rosablanca, New Mexico. A former straight-A student, Eddie now walks the thin line between tragedy and glory as he searches for his place in the world. Pulled in opposite directions by the people surrounding him, Eddie finally realizes that his own life is at stake and that it's up to him to make the right choices. A moving coming-of-age story about a Hispanic youth at a crossroads.