WAITING FOR HAPPINESS

Vincent, a rootless young Hispanic ex-soldier embittered by a painful past, returns to his ostensibly charming all-American hometown to lay his father's ashes to rest. Urged to take over the family landscaping business by his father's employee and friend Salvador (who, years ago, entered the U.S. illegally) Vincent decides to settle down and start a new life on equal terms with his white neighbors.

Meanwhile, terribly abused by her husband and suffering a miscarriage, Christina hides away from the world in a basement apartment under the house of an elderly woman, Helen, who longs for the lost opportunities of youth.

Though a relationship develops by fits and starts into genuine love, a happy future is abruptly cut short when Vincent's righteous reaction to continued racial persecution, and Christina's need to physically erase her trauma, end in unforeseen consequences for them all.