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A mother struggles with what it means to be Chicana, as she searches for her son at a powwow. A delivery driver has a fateful encounter with a voracious customer at the end of the world. A grieving father learns the true identity of the hummingbird that hovers outside his kitchen window. A Mexican cowboy—who might or might not be the Messiah—orders a pepperoni pizza on a Friday night. And a troubled young man develops an unexpected bond with his neighbor's racist yard ornament.

All Daniel Corriente wants is to escape his past and be “normal”, but as he enters his senior year in college, he must face the traumas that have made him who he is. During his journey, Dani will find himself at the intersections of seemingly conflicting identities—Mexican/Chicano/Anglo, thug/intellectual, straight/queer, loner/friend. Along the way, Dani will begin to weave toward clarity with the help of a therapist, feuding mentors, an elitist boss, a drug addict, a former love, and an old woman who is obsessed with his character flaws and with pizzas topped with extra green peppers....