Manny is a Mexican young man trying to make sense of his life in America. His parents worked to get him and his brother Alejandro to America but all they have is each other. It was their life’s goal, for their children to live a life full of choices and the possibility of education. But it was this motivation that pushed him through his life. A life that was wrapped around his relationship with his big brother Alejandro. After as children they experience their parents being detained and deported as they hid in a crawlspace, all Manny had was his brother Alejandro. He became his mother, father and big brother working from age nine to pay for all of the things Manny needed for school. Get an education, that was the goal, that was his focus. Growing up with an aunt Alejandro immediately took on the role of father because he knew that was his job as his big brother. But on Friday nights, every Friday nights the brothers went to Federal Blvd. a place where they could go ad be surrounded by their culture: Mexican food trucks, vendors selling out of their cars and at tables on the streets, blocks and blocks of the closest feeling of home. Fifteen years of Federal Blvd with his big brother until the night that ICE agents raid the street, the same night Manny tells Alejandro he is on schedule to graduate two weeks later. He must watch his brother be violently arrested, as well as Manny himself but only Alejandro was undocumented and both boys knew that. Manny had officially lost everyone in his immediate family. This is an immigrant story that is two brothers who only had each other, until they didn’t. Finally, Manny puts on his cap and gown and accepts that he has to take this next step in his life, but it is heartbreaking that he has to do it alone. For his family, he will push forward.
*Performer must be able to speak Spanish. This is also a story that could be told by a male of female performer, with writer permission.