"When I was 9, I was done. So I lay down behind a truck and waited."

Quinceañera - a interesting inde flick centered around the Mexican tradition of the Quinceanera - the fifteenth year when a girl is welcomed into the world. In this movie there are two, one for each cousin. The story centers around Magdalena a fourteen year old who discovers she is pregnant only months before her Quinceanera. Her father, the preacher, kicks her out because she denies having slept with a boy.

Magdalena is taken in by her bachelor great uncle who is sheltering her cousin Carlos who was kicked out of his parent's house when it was discovered that he is gay. He is also a thief and not the best role model for his sister or his cousin. Tio Thomas is a sweet man. He has made a home for himself and is willing to take in the wayward offspring of his nephews and nieces.

This is a very inde film - some of the dialogue was improvised, or as I like to say, not very good. A few scenes were a little painful to watch since the actors seemed to be given little more direction than here's a scene where we need you to talk like teenage girls and "action." This movie had an interesting idea, it just need a few screenwriters who knew what they were doing. Overall a sweet movie about trust, family, and growing up.