DACA recipient Alejandro Jimenez fled Oaxaca, Mexico as a child and survived crossing the desert; he trains as New Hope, Pennsylvania's first professional boxer as the nation debates his status. The film celebrates the immigrant story in America, examining how presidents of both parties have alternately uplifted and disparaged new arrivals. Centered on Alejandro's relationship with his coach, Puerto Rican-American Mark Roxey, a surrogate father raising a son born to two worlds.