All of us find ourselves compromised by circumstances beyond our control. Young Lyle Ortiz finds himself and his sisters in a situation well beyond the resources of a fourteen year old, much less a teen without a support system that he can access with the reasonable expectation of an acceptable outcome. He must create a way to live with the loss of his grandfather. He must rely upon his own wits and intellect in a world that has been less than generous to him and his sisters. He tries to make it all work on his own, without adult supervision, only to find that he does indeed have a guardian...