From the beginning, Daniel Mendoza struggled with who he is and where he is going in life.
Fatherless, Daniel learns from a myriad of male friends and neighbors, who come into his life from childhood to adulthood, about what it actually means to be a man.
From his youthful discord and aging regret over a span of decades, he learns that he is incomplete, as he dreams and yearns for his own father to teach him.