It's summertime and Victor Vargas (Victor Rasuk) is enjoying the golden period of adolescence. Trying to prove himself as the greatest ladies' man his neighborhood has ever seen, Victor soon confronts the complexities of life as he begins to struggle with the responsibilities of being an older brother to his younger siblings and the son to an overprotective grandmother (Altagracia Guzman). When a new romance develops with "Juicy" Judy Ramirez (Judy Marte), the most beautiful girl in the area, Victor is forced to confront his life and learn the difference between acting like a man and being one.

Peter Sollett's feature debut has been celebrated as "divinely realized" by The New York Times. His stunning piece of filmmaking carefully explores the stumbling blocks of growing up and captures adolescence at its most tender, funny and genuine. Sollett's script was developed through the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, a prestigious program which offers emerging artists the opportunity to work intensively on their feature film scripts with the support of established screenwriters. Sollett also extensively workshopped the film with the support of La Cinéfondation in Paris.

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