Open Range Pictures in association with
The Creative Media Institute
presents a film by Rod McCall
Synopsis
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. A long-time friend,
T.J. Ritchie, pushes him to deal drugs. An unorthodox
teacher encourages him to develop his intellect. By
chance, Eddie enrolls in a ballroom dance class where he
meets college-bound beauty Lupe García and is struck down
by love. Desperate to impress Lupe, he even tries his hand
at poetry. To his surprise, Eddie discovers that he has a
natural gift.
Then Eddie makes some bad choices and is sent to live with
his bachelor uncle, Tío Antonio, in Truth or Consequences.
He takes off his bandana, tucks in his shirt, and starts
calling himself Eduardo. His exposure to Tío’s interests
and way of life shatters all his masculine stereotypes and
inspires him to view the world – and himself – in a new
light. Pulled in opposite directions by T.J. and Lupe,
Eddie finally realizes that his own life is, indeed, up to
him.