Angel is bored with life in his small Mexican town and has no interest in working in his father's bakery, so he makes plans to cross the border and live the great "American Dream." His more practical older brother, Carlos, has no such fantasies, but when he learns of Angel's grand scheme, he decides to tag along, not only to keep Angel out of trouble, but also because it might solve the family's money problems. Their journey gets off to a rough start when they are abandoned by their smuggler and forced to fend for themselves in the Arizona desert. Following a strange and hilarious adventure involving cowboys, Indians, hallucinogens and things that go boom, the boys arrive in the sprawling modern metropolis known as Tucson, where they work as day-laborers, sleep in the park, and get treated like social outcasts. If this is the American Dream, Angel and Carlos need a wake-up call! This thought-provoking comedy puts a human face on the illegal immigration debate.