I love him for saying that. I look out the window so he doesn’t see me crying.
Can Walter Davis succeed when the odds are stacked against him?
Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent and personable. He is also homeless. The medical expenses that came with his mother’s unsuccessful battle with cancer have left him destitute. When he meets the girl of his dreams, his situation gets even more complicated. Trying to impress a girlfriend when you have no fixed address proves difficult. And when he’s caught in a lie, she shuns his company. Only resilience, ingenuity and his drive to succeed can bring Walter back from the brink of despair.
“Look, man, real life is not always pretty. Sometimes you gotta do hard things. You have to protect what’s yours in this life. No one else will do that for you.”
Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend from the barrio shows up, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought he could ignore his violent past.
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