Movie Description:
Cruze Montoya is a rock star onthe Westcoast poetry circuit, where audiences from San Diego to Seattle gather to hearhim perform. Just of the road from sucha tour, he gets an unexpected phone callalerting him that his father, Senior, isfatally ill. Cruz rushes home to be withhis dying father, a proud, quiet manstill leading a traditional life in their once bucolie mountain valley, now ravaged bypoverty, drug abuse, and violence. Cuaght between the unspokenwords of his judgment father and the open arms of his formerboss, local drug dealer Emilio, Cruze spirals out ofcontrol. evading the increasinglyanxious phone calls of his girlfriend Cruze buries himself infast action and easy money at the local hip-hop club, losing his poetic voice, his identity,and almost his life, before finding a way to heal his relationship with his family, his community, and himself.
