Covered in ink and riding a motorcycle, Antonio is the fun dad that plays hooky with Jessie and works in a tattoo parlor.
Those bad feelings are what usher in a cataclysmic downward spiral for Antonio as he’s provoked into a fight that gets him arrested and then picked up by ICE for not being naturalized.
His urgent situation to find money and bolster his immigration case creates a tangential friendship with Parker (Linh Dan Pham), a Vietnamese immigrant dying from cancer who comes to Antonio for a tattoo.Chon’s Antonio sounds like an authentic boy from the bayou, but he’s not and he knows it as he continues to navigate his otherness from childhood into adulthood.