Anything is possible in The Practice Room. Experiment, push your limits, and crawl into your dreams. You're invited on one woman's sensuous quest to achieve a mastery of a life she defines, not one dictated and imposed by an archaic, stale, failing status quo. Lightheartedly stumble with her through her shamelessly steamy, often dangerous, arguably elegant, encounters. Fantasy mingles with reality while joyful success as well as embarrassing mistakes are played out, corrected, transcended. Struggle isn't always sexy or kind when you find out the fairy tale lies but with practice you survive....

Focusing on shopkeepers in Latino/a neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Dolores Trevizo and Mary Lopez reveal how neighborhood poverty affects the business performance of Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs.