Emmanuel opens on the day Emmanuel "Manny" Ayala's best friend is shot in a stand off of drug related violence. As Manny struggles to come of age in violent Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, he discovers family secrets that will force him to choose between staying in Mexico and leaving for a life that's unlike anything he's ever known. Emmanuel is a pristine work of hope reimagined, of faith lost and regained, and of the one love that's impossible to lose.