Despite the loneliness he experiences living in New York, and the oceanic distance that separates him from his home, Miguel remains resiliently motivated to help this family he hasn't seen in 13 years - sacrificing, again and again, his own aspirations. When Miguel opens a package from his mother, he discovers photographs that throw him back to his childhood in rural Mexico, times when living in the US was but a dream. It is these childhood memories that fuel Miguel's ambition and altruism and yet, at the same time, keep him trapped in the past.