Hijo Del Barrio: Son of the Barrio

Twenty year old John Fuentes, a Hispanic Marine, waits for the next firefight to begin in the jungles of Vietnam. As he struggles with the reality of combat, he experiences flashbacks to his formative years in the Barrio, where he suffered through poverty, racism and a lost love and child. With each new dawn, the battles grow in intensity, but it is not death that John fears the most- rather it is the notion that Sharon, the mother of his child and the estranged love of his young life has c...