WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:20.968 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:00:23.232 --> 00:00:24.847 What does sueiito mean? 00:00:25.943 --> 00:00:29.026 Suenito? It means "little dream.” 00:00:41.875 --> 00:00:43.615 That's it? No story? 00:00:44.002 --> 00:00:45.867 Can we go in the water now? 00:00:46.547 --> 00:00:48.287 Let him explain. 00:00:49.174 --> 00:00:50.944 All right, all right. Everybody sit down, sit down. 00:00:50.968 --> 00:00:52.959 - Yes! Yeah! - All right. 00:00:55.639 --> 00:00:57.049 All right. 00:00:57.933 --> 00:00:59.093 Bueno. 00:01:00.227 --> 00:01:05.062 It's the story of a block that was disappearing. 00:01:05.816 --> 00:01:09.650 Once upon a time, in a far away land called nueva York... 00:01:11.822 --> 00:01:15.360 En un barrio called Washington heights. 00:01:16.368 --> 00:01:18.450 Say it, so it doesn't disappear. 00:01:18.537 --> 00:01:20.243 Washington heights! 00:01:20.330 --> 00:01:22.662 All right, all right. Oye, oye, oye. 00:01:22.749 --> 00:01:25.741 The streets were made of music. 00:01:29.548 --> 00:01:31.254 Ooh! 00:01:34.803 --> 00:01:37.465 Imi gente! It's your boy, the kid mero. 00:01:37.556 --> 00:01:39.968 It's 5:30 am, and here's today's news. 00:01:40.058 --> 00:01:43.266 In a record-breaking heat wave, the mayor's urging residents to what? 00:01:43.353 --> 00:01:47.437 Limit air conditioner use, as brownouts continue in the Bronx. 00:01:55.949 --> 00:01:58.816 Check it out, this weekend's highly anticipated block party, 00:01:58.910 --> 00:02:01.617 fiesta in the heights, is about to get you out of your homes 00:02:01.705 --> 00:02:04.242 and into the clubs. 00:02:27.022 --> 00:02:28.478 Hey, pop. 00:02:30.651 --> 00:02:32.482 Best days of my life. 00:02:45.207 --> 00:02:46.868 Don't forget to take your medicine. 00:02:49.252 --> 00:02:50.252 Love you. 00:03:10.899 --> 00:03:12.418 Lights up on Washington heights 00:03:12.442 --> 00:03:13.352 up at the break of day 00:03:13.443 --> 00:03:14.307 yo, what are you doing, bro? 00:03:14.403 --> 00:03:16.769 I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away 00:03:16.863 --> 00:03:18.854 pop the grate at the crack of dawn 00:03:18.949 --> 00:03:21.156 sing while I wipe down the awning 00:03:21.243 --> 00:03:23.029 hey, y'all. Good morning 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:28.740 ice cold piragua, parcha, China, cherry, strawberry and just for today I got mamey. 00:03:28.834 --> 00:03:31.701 - Oye, piragiero, ;como estas? - Como siempre, sefior usnavi. 00:03:31.795 --> 00:03:34.036 Ice cold piragua, parcha... 00:03:34.464 --> 00:03:37.251 I am usnavi and you prob'ly never heard my name 00:03:37.342 --> 00:03:40.049 reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated 00:03:40.137 --> 00:03:43.880 exacerbated by the fact that my syntax is highly complicated 00:03:43.974 --> 00:03:47.808 'cuz I emigrated from the single greatest little place in the Caribbean 00:03:47.894 --> 00:03:49.805 Dominican Republic I love it 00:03:49.896 --> 00:03:52.308 Jesus, I'm jealous of it and beyond that 00:03:52.399 --> 00:03:55.311 ever since my folks passed on I haven't gone back 00:03:55.402 --> 00:03:57.313 goddamn, I gotta get on that 00:03:58.321 --> 00:04:00.232 on! The milk has gone bad 00:04:00.323 --> 00:04:01.779 hold up just a second 00:04:01.867 --> 00:04:04.404 why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid? 00:04:04.494 --> 00:04:06.826 I'd better step it up and fight the heat 00:04:06.913 --> 00:04:10.451 'cuz I'm not makin' any profit if the coffee isn't light and sweet 00:04:10.542 --> 00:04:11.782 hoo-hoo! 00:04:11.877 --> 00:04:13.242 Abuela, my fridge broke. 00:04:13.336 --> 00:04:15.076 I got café but no con leche. 00:04:15.172 --> 00:04:18.164 Ay, dios. Try my mother's old recipe. 00:04:18.258 --> 00:04:20.089 One can of condensed milk. 00:04:20.177 --> 00:04:21.212 Nice. 00:04:21.303 --> 00:04:23.510 Oh, hey. Your lottery ticket. 00:04:29.144 --> 00:04:31.414 That was abuela she's not really my abuela 00:04:31.438 --> 00:04:32.769 but she practically raised me 00:04:32.856 --> 00:04:34.346 this corner is her escuela 00:04:34.441 --> 00:04:36.853 now, you're probably thinkin' I'm up shit's creek 00:04:36.943 --> 00:04:40.026 [I've never been north of 96th street 00:04:40.113 --> 00:04:42.604 well you must take the a train 00:04:42.949 --> 00:04:46.191 even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain 00:04:46.286 --> 00:04:49.278 get off at 181st and take the escalator 00:04:49.372 --> 00:04:51.954 I hope you're writin' this down I'm gonna test you later 00:04:52.042 --> 00:04:53.186 I'm getting tested 00:04:53.210 --> 00:04:54.666 times are tough on this bodega 00:04:54.753 --> 00:04:56.789 two months ago somebody bought Ortega's 00:04:56.880 --> 00:04:59.041 our neighbors started packin' up and pickin' up 00:04:59.132 --> 00:05:00.542 and ever since the rents went up 00:05:00.634 --> 00:05:03.091 it's gotten mad expensive but we live with just enough 00:05:03.178 --> 00:05:08.639 in the heights I flip the lights and start my day 00:05:08.725 --> 00:05:10.886 there are fights and endless debts 00:05:10.977 --> 00:05:14.435 and bills to pay 00:05:14.523 --> 00:05:15.763 in the heights 00:05:15.857 --> 00:05:18.599 I can't survive without café 00:05:18.693 --> 00:05:20.308 I serve café 00:05:20.403 --> 00:05:25.238 'cuz tonight seems like a million years away 00:05:25.325 --> 00:05:26.656 en Washington... 00:05:26.743 --> 00:05:28.654 Next up... ding! Kevin rosario 00:05:28.745 --> 00:05:30.030 he runs the cab company 00:05:30.121 --> 00:05:31.657 he struggles in the barrio 00:05:31.748 --> 00:05:33.579 see, his daughter Nina's off at college 00:05:33.667 --> 00:05:36.079 tuition is mad steep so he can't sleep 00:05:36.169 --> 00:05:37.875 everything he get is mad cheap 00:05:37.963 --> 00:05:41.330 good morning, usnavi 00:05:41.424 --> 00:05:43.836 pan caliente café con leche 00:05:43.927 --> 00:05:46.714 put twenty dollars on today's lottery 00:05:46.805 --> 00:05:50.172 - okay! Must be your lucky day - Gotta be 00:05:50.267 --> 00:05:52.383 oh, my god, you're so excited 00:05:52.477 --> 00:05:55.344 my Nina flew in at three am last night 00:05:55.438 --> 00:05:58.271 sweet! Abuela's been cooking all week 00:06:00.902 --> 00:06:02.233 are we gonna eat! 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:04.527 So then Yesenia walks in the room 00:06:04.614 --> 00:06:05.353 aha 00:06:05.448 --> 00:06:07.564 she smells sex and cheap perfume 00:06:07.659 --> 00:06:08.444 oh, no! 00:06:08.535 --> 00:06:11.777 It smells like one of those trees that you hang from the rearview 00:06:11.872 --> 00:06:12.657 Jay, no! 00:06:12.747 --> 00:06:16.365 It's true! She screams, "who's in there with you, Julio?" 00:06:16.459 --> 00:06:17.289 Daniela! 00:06:17.377 --> 00:06:19.368 Grabs a bat and kicks in the door 00:06:19.462 --> 00:06:20.201 Carla! 00:06:20.297 --> 00:06:22.333 He's in bed with Jose from the liquor store! 00:06:22.424 --> 00:06:25.086 Ino me diga! 00:06:25.176 --> 00:06:26.882 And that's cuca. The salon ladies. 00:06:26.970 --> 00:06:28.835 Thanks, usnavi! 00:06:30.849 --> 00:06:32.214 Cuca. 00:06:34.394 --> 00:06:35.913 Adiés, papi. 00:06:35.937 --> 00:06:36.972 Bye! 00:06:37.814 --> 00:06:40.146 Sonny, you're late. 00:06:40.233 --> 00:06:42.565 Chillax, you know you love me. 00:06:44.154 --> 00:06:45.590 Me and my cousin runnin' 00:06:45.614 --> 00:06:48.697 just another dime-a-dozen mom-and-pop stop-and-shop 00:06:48.783 --> 00:06:50.819 and oh, my god it's gotten too darn hot 00:06:50.911 --> 00:06:52.651 like my man Cole Porter said 00:06:52.746 --> 00:06:55.203 people come through for a few cold waters 00:06:55.290 --> 00:06:58.202 and a lottery ticket just a part of the routine 00:06:58.293 --> 00:07:01.376 everybody's got a job everybody's got a dream 00:07:01.463 --> 00:07:03.670 they gossip, as I sip my coffee and smirk 00:07:03.757 --> 00:07:06.214 the first stop as people hop to work 00:07:06.301 --> 00:07:08.838 bust it, I'm like: "One dollar, two dollars 00:07:08.929 --> 00:07:10.920 one fifty, one sixty-nine I got it 00:07:11.014 --> 00:07:12.720 you want a box of condoms? What kind? 00:07:12.807 --> 00:07:15.344 That's two quarters, two quarter waters the New York times 00:07:15.435 --> 00:07:17.391 you need a bag for that? The tax is added” 00:07:17.479 --> 00:07:18.810 once you get some practice at it 00:07:18.897 --> 00:07:21.309 you do rapid mathematics automatically 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:23.606 sellin' maxi-pads fuzzy dice for taxicabs 00:07:23.693 --> 00:07:26.105 practically everybody's stressed, yes 00:07:26.196 --> 00:07:29.859 but they press through the mess bounce checks and wonder what's next 00:07:29.950 --> 00:07:33.238 in the heights I buy my coffee and I go 00:07:33.328 --> 00:07:35.159 I buy my coffee and... 00:07:35.246 --> 00:07:36.452 Set my sights 00:07:36.539 --> 00:07:39.497 on only what I need to know 00:07:39.584 --> 00:07:40.915 what I heed to know 00:07:41.002 --> 00:07:42.367 in the heights 00:07:42.462 --> 00:07:44.794 money is tight, but even so 00:07:44.881 --> 00:07:46.792 even so 00:07:46.883 --> 00:07:51.547 when the lights go down I blast my radio 00:07:51.638 --> 00:07:54.345 - you ain't got no skills! - Benny! 00:07:54.432 --> 00:07:56.172 - Yo, let me get a... - Milky way 00:07:56.267 --> 00:07:58.804 - yeah, and let me also get a... - Daily news 00:07:58.895 --> 00:08:00.055 - and a... - Post 00:08:00.146 --> 00:08:02.387 - and most important my... - Boss's second coffee 00:08:02.482 --> 00:08:04.143 one cream - five sugars 00:08:04.234 --> 00:08:05.690 - I'm the number one earner - What? 00:08:05.777 --> 00:08:07.062 The fastest learner - what? 00:08:07.153 --> 00:08:09.439 My boss, he can't keep me on the damn back burner 00:08:09.531 --> 00:08:12.022 - yes he can - I'm makin' moves, I'm makin' deals 00:08:12.117 --> 00:08:13.903 - but guess what? - What? 00:08:13.994 --> 00:08:15.609 You still ain't got no skills 00:08:15.704 --> 00:08:17.945 - har-de-har - Yo, Vanessa show up yet? 00:08:18.039 --> 00:08:20.826 - Shut up! - Hey, little homie, don't get so upset 00:08:20.917 --> 00:08:22.999 - man... - Tell Vanessa how you feel 00:08:23.086 --> 00:08:24.826 buy the girl a meal on the real 00:08:24.921 --> 00:08:26.502 or you ain't got no skills 00:08:26.589 --> 00:08:30.798 nooo! No, no, nooo! 00:08:31.261 --> 00:08:34.424 No, no, nooo, no-no-no! Nooo, no-no-no! 00:08:34.514 --> 00:08:36.880 No, no-no, no-no, no-no no-no, no-no, no-no! 00:08:36.975 --> 00:08:39.808 Mr. Johnson I got the security deposit 00:08:39.894 --> 00:08:42.806 it's locked in a box in the bottom of my closet 00:08:42.897 --> 00:08:44.808 it's not reflected in my bank statement 00:08:44.899 --> 00:08:46.890 but I've been savin' to make a down payment 00:08:46.985 --> 00:08:48.145 and pay rent 00:08:48.236 --> 00:08:50.589 - no, no, I won't let you down - You got this. You got this. 00:08:50.613 --> 00:08:53.355 Yo, here's your chance ask her out right now! 00:08:53.450 --> 00:08:55.532 I'll see you later we can look at that lease 00:08:55.618 --> 00:08:57.984 bro, do somethin' make your move, don't freeze! 00:08:58.079 --> 00:08:58.864 Hey! 00:08:58.955 --> 00:09:02.743 You owe me a bottle of cold champagne! 00:09:02.834 --> 00:09:04.290 Are you movin'? 00:09:04.377 --> 00:09:08.336 Just a little credit check and I'm on that downtown train! 00:09:08.423 --> 00:09:09.833 Well, your coffee's on the house 00:09:09.924 --> 00:09:11.164 okay 00:09:11.259 --> 00:09:13.921 usnavi, ask her out - no way 00:09:14.012 --> 00:09:16.719 I'll see you later, so... 00:09:23.897 --> 00:09:24.932 L, uh... 00:09:26.441 --> 00:09:28.181 Oh, whoa, whoa... 00:09:28.943 --> 00:09:32.060 Yo, smooth operator oh, damn, there she goes 00:09:32.155 --> 00:09:34.646 yo, bro, take five take a walk outside 00:09:34.741 --> 00:09:37.699 you look exhausted, lost don't let life slide 00:09:37.786 --> 00:09:40.243 the whole hood is struggling times is tight 00:09:40.330 --> 00:09:43.197 and you're stuck to this corner like a streetlight 00:09:46.211 --> 00:09:48.748 yeah, I'm a streetlight chokin' on the heat 00:09:48.838 --> 00:09:51.625 the world spins around while I'm frozen to my seat 00:09:51.716 --> 00:09:54.503 the people that I know all keep on rollin' down the street 00:09:54.594 --> 00:09:57.051 but every day is different so I'm switchin' up the beat 00:09:57.138 --> 00:09:59.845 "cuz my parents came with nothing they got a little more 00:09:59.933 --> 00:10:02.970 and sure, we're poor but yo, at least we got the store 00:10:03.061 --> 00:10:05.768 and it's all about the legacy they left with me, it's destiny 00:10:05.855 --> 00:10:08.688 and one day I'll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me 00:10:08.775 --> 00:10:11.608 in the heights I hang my flag up on display 00:10:11.694 --> 00:10:14.173 we came to work and to live and we got a lot in common 00:10:14.197 --> 00:10:17.405 /t reminds me that I came from miles away 00:10:17.492 --> 00:10:19.574 dr, PR we are not stoppin' 00:10:19.661 --> 00:10:23.028 - in the heights - Every day, paciencia y fe 00:10:23.123 --> 00:10:25.142 until the day we go from poverty to stock options 00:10:25.166 --> 00:10:27.407 in the heights I've got today 00:10:27.502 --> 00:10:29.788 today's all we got, so we cannot stop 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:30.914 this is our block 00:10:31.005 --> 00:10:35.840 in the heights I hang my flag up on display 00:10:36.594 --> 00:10:39.882 it reminds me that I came from miles away 00:10:39.973 --> 00:10:42.055 my family came from miles away 00:10:42.142 --> 00:10:46.135 in the heights it gets more expensive every day 00:10:46.229 --> 00:10:47.890 every day 00:10:47.981 --> 00:10:50.188 and tonight is so far away 00:10:50.275 --> 00:10:53.438 but as for mafiana, mi pana ya gotta just keep watchin' 00:10:53.528 --> 00:10:55.005 - you'll see the late nights - In the heights 00:10:55.029 --> 00:10:56.314 you'll taste beans and rice 00:10:56.406 --> 00:10:57.883 - the syrup and shaved ice - In the heights 00:10:57.907 --> 00:10:59.238 I ain't gonna say it twice 00:10:59.325 --> 00:11:00.803 - turn up the streetlights - In the heights 00:11:00.827 --> 00:11:01.827 we're takin' a flight 00:11:01.911 --> 00:11:04.152 to a couple of days in the life of what it's like 00:11:04.247 --> 00:11:06.238 Jen Washington heights! 00:11:20.930 --> 00:11:23.763 Come on, stack that right there, beside the mangoes. 00:11:26.352 --> 00:11:28.138 Let's just keep those boxes in order, too. 00:11:28.229 --> 00:11:30.345 Ah, the hustle never ends. 00:11:30.940 --> 00:11:32.931 - Alejandro, how you doing? - ; Qué lo qué? 00:11:33.026 --> 00:11:36.689 - How's the law office? - Ah, still going, thank god. 00:11:36.779 --> 00:11:39.441 - You're spitting image of your old man. - Oh, man, come on. 00:11:41.242 --> 00:11:42.482 Yeah, so how was the dr? 00:11:42.577 --> 00:11:46.195 I got to visit some old friends. You know how it is. 00:11:46.289 --> 00:11:48.405 I wish I could go back more often. 00:11:48.499 --> 00:11:49.909 That's facts. 00:11:50.001 --> 00:11:52.242 Hey, so you get to check out my dad's old place? 00:11:52.337 --> 00:11:53.372 Mm. 00:11:54.214 --> 00:11:56.250 Same story as last time? 00:12:02.388 --> 00:12:03.844 You ready? 00:12:06.059 --> 00:12:07.890 Oye, no me relajes. 00:12:09.771 --> 00:12:12.228 Don't play! 00:12:12.315 --> 00:12:15.682 Now, it's probably not how you remember it, 00:12:15.777 --> 00:12:19.645 but it could be an opportunity to bring it back to life. 00:12:20.448 --> 00:12:23.235 Ah, diablo. 00:12:24.327 --> 00:12:28.366 My pops would be rolling in his grave if he saw what came of his bar. 00:12:28.957 --> 00:12:30.697 The electricity's shot. 00:12:30.792 --> 00:12:33.158 Half the roof got taken in the hurricane. 00:12:33.253 --> 00:12:36.290 Thus the low asking price, the quick sale. 00:12:38.216 --> 00:12:40.252 "El suenito." 00:12:41.177 --> 00:12:42.838 Pop's little dream. 00:12:43.388 --> 00:12:44.844 Yo, I remember, man, when... 00:12:44.931 --> 00:12:47.513 I used to be working in the back on a soda gun. 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.591 And I was like John wick. I'd be like 00:12:49.686 --> 00:12:52.302 jfuacata, fuacata, fuacata, fuacata! 00:12:53.982 --> 00:12:57.395 I've been saving up all my pennies in my piggy bank for this day. 00:12:57.485 --> 00:13:00.727 Yeah, on these blocks, you can't walk two steps 00:13:00.822 --> 00:13:04.280 without bumping into someone's big plans. 00:13:06.077 --> 00:13:07.487 Mijo... 00:13:25.263 --> 00:13:26.844 Okay, I'm in. 00:13:30.310 --> 00:13:32.050 Thank you, man. 00:13:32.145 --> 00:13:34.010 I'll see you, papa. 00:13:34.105 --> 00:13:35.891 - Nos vemos. - Come on. 00:13:36.441 --> 00:13:38.022 Here we go. 00:13:40.653 --> 00:13:42.644 This is crazy! 00:13:44.907 --> 00:13:46.488 Let's go! 00:13:52.999 --> 00:13:55.832 Mine was a... quaint little suedito. 00:13:56.169 --> 00:13:58.581 If I made it back to the Dominican Republic, 00:13:58.671 --> 00:14:00.377 then we retained our roots. 00:14:00.465 --> 00:14:04.674 But Nina rosario's dreams were all about reach. 00:14:04.761 --> 00:14:07.753 Spelling bee champ, valedictorian, 00:14:07.847 --> 00:14:10.714 managed her dad's business and basically... 00:14:10.808 --> 00:14:12.298 She was like a little sister to me. 00:14:12.685 --> 00:14:15.142 Girl was a rocket, determined to go far. 00:14:16.147 --> 00:14:17.262 What?! 00:14:20.193 --> 00:14:22.479 The genius is back! 00:14:23.321 --> 00:14:25.858 - I missed you! - Me, too. Did you just get in? 00:14:25.948 --> 00:14:26.983 Yeah, late last night. 00:14:27.658 --> 00:14:30.866 - In a week? - Yeah, it's really happening. 00:14:30.953 --> 00:14:32.784 Yo, so much to catch up on. 00:14:32.872 --> 00:14:35.079 - Come over for a free mani-pedi, yeah? - I need it. 00:14:35.166 --> 00:14:38.374 Mm-hm. Oh, and Benny's on the dispatch today. 00:14:39.087 --> 00:14:40.452 Just sayin'. 00:14:43.758 --> 00:14:46.044 Check one, two, three 00:14:46.135 --> 00:14:48.877 check one, two, three 00:14:48.971 --> 00:14:51.633 this is Benny on the dispatch yo 00:14:51.724 --> 00:14:55.308 atencién, yo, attention 00:14:55.395 --> 00:14:57.727 it's Benny, and I'd like to mention 00:14:57.814 --> 00:15:00.556 I'm on the microphone this mornin' 00:15:00.650 --> 00:15:01.810 honk your horn if you want it 00:15:01.901 --> 00:15:03.186 ha-ha! 00:15:03.277 --> 00:15:05.518 Okay, we got traffic on the West Side 00:15:05.613 --> 00:15:08.195 get off at 79, and take the left side 00:15:08.282 --> 00:15:10.864 of riverside drive, you might slide 00:15:10.952 --> 00:15:14.410 west end's your best friend if you catch the lights 00:15:14.497 --> 00:15:16.112 and don't take the Deegan 00:15:16.207 --> 00:15:18.539 yo, big papi is in town this weekend 00:15:18.626 --> 00:15:20.833 sorry Dominicans, take route 87 00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:22.751 you ain't getting back in again 00:15:22.839 --> 00:15:23.839 hold up a minute 00:15:23.923 --> 00:15:26.756 - Benny, hey - Nina, you're home today 00:15:26.843 --> 00:15:29.209 - any sign? - Of your dad, he's on his way 00:15:29.303 --> 00:15:32.090 - anyway - It's good to see your face 00:15:32.181 --> 00:15:34.638 - anytime - Hold up a minute, wait 00:15:34.725 --> 00:15:37.182 you used to run this dispatch, right? 00:15:37.562 --> 00:15:39.177 Once or twice 00:15:39.272 --> 00:15:41.308 okay, well, check the technique 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.141 yo! There's a traffic accident I have to mention 00:15:44.235 --> 00:15:47.352 at the intersection of 10th ave and the Jacob javits convention center 00:15:47.447 --> 00:15:50.860 and check it, don't get stuck in the rubber-neckin' on 192nd 00:15:50.950 --> 00:15:52.531 there's a double-Decker bus wreck 00:15:52.618 --> 00:15:55.030 now listen up, we got a special guest 00:15:55.121 --> 00:15:58.079 - live and direct from a year out west - Benny 00:15:58.166 --> 00:16:00.407 welcome her back 'cause she looks mad stressed! 00:16:00.501 --> 00:16:02.867 Nina rosario, the barrio's best 00:16:02.962 --> 00:16:07.205 whoo! Honk your horns 00:16:07.300 --> 00:16:09.757 - no, no, no, no... - Go, go, go. 00:16:09.844 --> 00:16:12.631 She's smiling 00:16:12.722 --> 00:16:15.797 say hello 00:16:15.892 --> 00:16:19.430 hello 00:16:19.520 --> 00:16:26.358 - whoo! - Good morning 00:16:27.570 --> 00:16:30.061 I ought to let you work 00:16:30.156 --> 00:16:32.898 thanks for the welcome wagon 00:16:33.284 --> 00:16:34.444 anytime 00:16:34.535 --> 00:16:36.025 anytime, Nina 00:16:41.167 --> 00:16:43.158 Stay here with me 00:16:44.128 --> 00:16:45.993 it's getting hot outside 00:16:46.631 --> 00:16:48.747 turn up the ac 00:16:49.258 --> 00:16:53.797 stay here with me 00:16:56.140 --> 00:16:57.630 you thirsty as hell. 00:16:59.060 --> 00:16:59.970 You used to date? 00:17:00.061 --> 00:17:02.302 No way, the boss's daughter? 00:17:04.232 --> 00:17:06.063 Nina rosario! 00:17:06.609 --> 00:17:09.100 - Oh... yo! - What's up?! 00:17:09.195 --> 00:17:10.856 Whoa, whoa... 00:17:11.656 --> 00:17:12.816 Yo, hold up. 00:17:12.907 --> 00:17:14.898 Don't get hit by a car, girl, you just got here. 00:17:15.952 --> 00:17:16.737 Oh, man. 00:17:16.827 --> 00:17:20.536 Yo, mad changes happening on the block since you've been at school. 00:17:22.083 --> 00:17:26.042 Oh, yeah. I mean, at least your dad kept half the storefront. 00:17:26.420 --> 00:17:29.253 Yo, the cleaners next door, nine dollars a shirt. 00:17:29.340 --> 00:17:31.626 What? Yo! I ook who's home! 00:17:31.717 --> 00:17:34.675 Look at youl! 00:17:34.762 --> 00:17:36.093 Why are you taller than me? 00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:38.717 I know, my man grew a couple inches, he think he a man. 00:17:38.808 --> 00:17:40.719 - Man, shut up. - I see you. 00:17:40.810 --> 00:17:43.517 Listen, you down to march next week? 00:17:44.105 --> 00:17:45.390 I ike we used to? 00:17:46.232 --> 00:17:47.232 What's the cause? 00:17:47.316 --> 00:17:49.978 They're talking about kicking out all the dreamers. 00:17:50.069 --> 00:17:52.936 It's time to make some noise. You want to come? 00:17:53.030 --> 00:17:55.146 I know that voice! 00:17:55.241 --> 00:17:56.822 \whoo-hoo! 00:17:56.909 --> 00:17:58.194 Ven p'acal 00:17:59.287 --> 00:18:02.029 count me in. Yo. Later 00:18:03.207 --> 00:18:05.163 well, you do good? You done? Yeah. 00:18:05.251 --> 00:18:07.913 My man, who's watching the store? “What? 00:18:08.671 --> 00:18:10.457 Yo! Shit! 00:18:10.548 --> 00:18:12.664 Pete! You can't just take that! 00:18:12.758 --> 00:18:15.090 Bro! Get back here, man! 00:18:15.177 --> 00:18:18.135 That's on your tab, bro! Both of y'all. 00:18:21.475 --> 00:18:23.636 Oh, yes. 00:18:30.067 --> 00:18:32.228 Hand-embroidered by your mother. 00:18:32.820 --> 00:18:34.435 May she rest in peace. 00:18:34.530 --> 00:18:36.691 We'll use them for the party. 00:18:36.782 --> 00:18:37.782 They're beautiful. 00:18:39.785 --> 00:18:42.527 Abuela Claudia never had kids, 00:18:42.622 --> 00:18:45.204 so she adopted the whole block as her own. 00:18:45.708 --> 00:18:48.120 Adopted our suenitos, foo. 00:18:54.383 --> 00:18:56.374 When I got to Stanford... 00:18:56.469 --> 00:18:58.300 The isolation, abuela. 00:18:58.387 --> 00:18:59.502 The loneliness. 00:19:00.306 --> 00:19:02.342 I was, like, "what am I doing here?" 00:19:02.433 --> 00:19:04.640 Ay, mija, yo sé. 00:19:04.727 --> 00:19:07.184 Mira, when my mama came from Cuba... 00:19:07.271 --> 00:19:09.136 Ay, dios mio. 00:19:10.608 --> 00:19:16.444 She felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. 00:19:17.448 --> 00:19:18.938 What did she do? 00:19:21.952 --> 00:19:26.161 She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. 00:19:27.083 --> 00:19:29.745 Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. 00:19:29.835 --> 00:19:31.416 But the gloves hid that. 00:19:31.504 --> 00:19:34.962 We had to assert our dignity in small ways. 00:19:35.549 --> 00:19:37.835 That's why these napkins are beautiful. 00:19:39.053 --> 00:19:42.420 That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. 00:19:43.849 --> 00:19:48.434 Little details that tell the world we are not invisible. 00:19:59.907 --> 00:20:05.618 Sigue andando El camino por toda su vida 00:20:05.705 --> 00:20:07.866 respira 00:20:07.957 --> 00:20:10.539 - breathe - Y si pierdes mis huellas 00:20:10.626 --> 00:20:13.789 que dios te bendiga 00:20:13.879 --> 00:20:16.746 respira 00:20:17.758 --> 00:20:19.214 this is my street 00:20:19.635 --> 00:20:21.591 I smile at the faces 00:20:21.679 --> 00:20:23.635 - I've known all my life - Hey, Nina. Como estas? 00:20:23.723 --> 00:20:25.463 They regard me with pride 00:20:26.100 --> 00:20:27.215 and everyone's sweet 00:20:27.309 --> 00:20:29.891 they say, "you're going places” 00:20:29.979 --> 00:20:33.688 so how can I say that while I was away 00:20:33.774 --> 00:20:36.140 - I had so much to hide? - Hey, Nina! 00:20:36.235 --> 00:20:38.601 Hey, guys, it's me 00:20:39.488 --> 00:20:43.106 the biggest disappointment you know 00:20:43.826 --> 00:20:45.532 the kid couldn't hack it 00:20:45.619 --> 00:20:49.032 she's back and she's walkin' real slow 00:20:49.707 --> 00:20:52.744 welcome home - just breathe 00:20:52.835 --> 00:20:58.330 sigue andando El camino por toda su vida 00:20:58.424 --> 00:21:00.255 respira 00:21:00.342 --> 00:21:03.459 - just breathe - Y si pierdes mis huellas 00:21:03.554 --> 00:21:06.762 que dios te bendiga 00:21:06.849 --> 00:21:09.682 respira - as the radio plays 00:21:09.769 --> 00:21:12.226 old forgotten boleros 00:21:12.313 --> 00:21:15.805 I think of the days when this city was mine 00:21:15.900 --> 00:21:17.891 I remember the praise 00:21:17.985 --> 00:21:20.601 - "ay, te adoro, te quiero” - Te adoro 00:21:20.696 --> 00:21:22.732 the neighborhood waved and said 00:21:22.823 --> 00:21:26.657 "Nina, be brave and you're gonna be fine" 00:21:26.744 --> 00:21:29.611 and maybe it's me 00:21:29.705 --> 00:21:33.869 - but it all seems like lifetimes ago - Respira 00:21:33.959 --> 00:21:39.454 so what do I say to these faces that I used to know? 00:21:40.007 --> 00:21:42.214 "Hey, I'm home?" 00:21:42.927 --> 00:21:46.260 Mira, Nina 00:21:46.347 --> 00:21:49.714 - hey... - No me preocupo por Ella 00:21:49.809 --> 00:21:51.345 they're not worried about me 00:21:51.435 --> 00:21:56.555 Mira, alli esta nuestra Estrella 00:21:56.649 --> 00:22:00.107 they are all counting on me to succeed 00:22:00.194 --> 00:22:02.651 Ella si da la talla 00:22:02.738 --> 00:22:07.607 I am the one who made it out! 00:22:07.701 --> 00:22:11.489 The one who always made the grade 00:22:11.580 --> 00:22:16.165 but maybe I should have just stayed home 00:22:16.252 --> 00:22:18.914 when I was a child I stayed wide awake 00:22:19.004 --> 00:22:20.835 climbed to the highest place 00:22:20.923 --> 00:22:22.788 on every fire escape 00:22:22.883 --> 00:22:24.714 restless to climb - respira 00:22:24.802 --> 00:22:26.667 I got every scholarship 00:22:26.762 --> 00:22:28.468 saved every dollar 00:22:28.556 --> 00:22:30.158 the first to go to college 00:22:30.182 --> 00:22:32.389 - how do I tell them why - Respira 00:22:32.476 --> 00:22:34.933 I'm coming back home? 00:22:35.020 --> 00:22:39.184 With my eyes on the horizon 00:22:39.275 --> 00:22:42.767 just me and gwb 00:22:44.405 --> 00:22:46.612 asking, "gee, Nina 00:22:48.409 --> 00:22:50.320 what will you be?" 00:22:55.291 --> 00:22:57.373 Straighten the spine 00:22:57.459 --> 00:22:59.541 smile for the neighbors 00:22:59.628 --> 00:23:01.368 everything's fine 00:23:01.463 --> 00:23:03.203 everything's cool 00:23:03.299 --> 00:23:04.880 the standard reply 00:23:04.967 --> 00:23:07.458 lots of tests, lots of papers 00:23:07.553 --> 00:23:09.168 smile, wave goodbye 00:23:09.263 --> 00:23:12.505 and pray to the sky, oh, god 00:23:12.600 --> 00:23:16.263 - and how do I dare to say? - Nina 00:23:16.353 --> 00:23:20.471 - can I go in there and say - Nina 00:23:20.566 --> 00:23:26.436 I know that I'm letting you down 00:23:33.120 --> 00:23:34.120 Nina! 00:23:39.418 --> 00:23:41.784 Just... 00:23:44.048 --> 00:23:50.419 Breathe 00:24:00.773 --> 00:24:02.764 The reality of an elite school... 00:24:02.858 --> 00:24:04.439 It's no joke, pop. 00:24:04.526 --> 00:24:05.936 Mm. 00:24:06.028 --> 00:24:09.441 Yeah, when I left, y'all were, like, 00:24:09.531 --> 00:24:13.615 "it's gonna be great. Go show 'em who we are. Go represent." 00:24:14.411 --> 00:24:16.072 The truth is. 00:24:16.914 --> 00:24:20.498 Is that most of the time I'm at Stanford feels like a betrayal. 00:24:21.502 --> 00:24:23.413 ¢;de verdad? Of who? 00:24:23.504 --> 00:24:24.710 Of my family. 00:24:25.339 --> 00:24:26.419 My community. 00:24:26.507 --> 00:24:29.840 Like the Dean, he invited me to this diversity dinner. 00:24:29.927 --> 00:24:33.135 Super-wealthy donors, trustees, the whole nine. 00:24:33.222 --> 00:24:36.339 And I wore this black cocktail dress and I was walking to my seat, 00:24:36.433 --> 00:24:40.551 and one of the patrons shoved her plate into my arms 00:24:40.646 --> 00:24:43.513 and said, "I ordered the vegetarian option." 00:24:43.607 --> 00:24:45.097 No. Yeah 00:24:45.192 --> 00:24:49.435 and all the servers, all latino, shot me this look, 00:24:49.530 --> 00:24:52.146 like, "ooh, what's this triguefia gonna do?" 00:24:52.241 --> 00:24:55.950 "Ooh, what's she gon' do? Is she with us? Or is she with them?" 00:24:56.328 --> 00:24:58.910 Ah, bueno. There's no shame in waiting tables. 00:24:59.957 --> 00:25:01.559 And there's no shame in having a different path. 00:25:01.583 --> 00:25:03.699 Hm? Like you. 00:25:08.632 --> 00:25:11.044 Dad... the deadline passed. 00:25:11.427 --> 00:25:13.668 The extension on spring tuition. 00:25:13.762 --> 00:25:14.877 ;de verdad? 00:25:14.972 --> 00:25:16.508 - Yeah. - But I didn't receive notice. 00:25:16.598 --> 00:25:18.884 Yeah, they let me finish off my classes, but we owe them. 00:25:18.976 --> 00:25:21.934 No, don't you give it a second thought. I'mon it. Mm? 00:25:22.021 --> 00:25:23.306 Dad 00:25:23.397 --> 00:25:26.184 the deadline to pay and enroll for next semester also passed. 00:25:28.318 --> 00:25:30.559 How come you know about all this before I do? 00:25:30.654 --> 00:25:34.238 I switched the info. I gave the finance office my dorm address. 00:25:36.076 --> 00:25:37.196 Well, why would you do that? 00:25:37.286 --> 00:25:40.449 Because you sold half the business, and it barely covered freshman year. 00:25:40.539 --> 00:25:42.225 I don't want you doing something else crazy. 00:25:42.249 --> 00:25:45.867 - Espera, that sale pulled us out of debt. - No, no. 00:25:45.961 --> 00:25:49.078 You and I both know that finances were tenuous before getting into this. 00:25:49.173 --> 00:25:50.413 And this might not be feasible. 00:25:50.466 --> 00:25:52.610 - I'm gonna call them right now. - Dad, Stanford's over. 00:25:52.634 --> 00:25:54.249 Stop overreacting, Nina. 00:25:54.344 --> 00:25:55.675 - Please. - Dad, I'm serious. 00:25:55.763 --> 00:25:57.128 Joye! 00:26:04.229 --> 00:26:06.436 You don't tell me how much we can afford. 00:26:12.321 --> 00:26:14.562 You're not the parent. Mm? 00:26:15.991 --> 00:26:18.858 God bless you. Dios te bendiga. 00:26:18.952 --> 00:26:20.442 Igracias! 00:26:28.670 --> 00:26:30.126 ; Qué es esto? 00:26:30.756 --> 00:26:32.292 What's all over those pipes? 00:26:33.050 --> 00:26:35.132 - Rust. - Rust? 00:26:36.095 --> 00:26:37.631 Lovely. 00:26:37.721 --> 00:26:40.963 - ¢2y esto? - That's the roof. 00:26:41.058 --> 00:26:42.673 On the floor? 00:26:43.644 --> 00:26:45.225 Ay, usnauvi. 00:26:45.979 --> 00:26:47.890 Tu eres un workaholic. 00:26:48.607 --> 00:26:51.815 You think it will be different in the Dominican Republic? 00:26:51.902 --> 00:26:53.642 Just like my mama. 00:26:53.737 --> 00:26:58.276 Morning and night, year after year... To what end? 00:26:58.367 --> 00:27:02.201 To wake up and scrub another floor till the day she died. 00:27:03.288 --> 00:27:06.655 Yeah, but... here I work to survive. 00:27:07.292 --> 00:27:10.125 El suenito will be a labor of love. 00:27:10.212 --> 00:27:12.043 The bodega was only supposed to be temporary, 00:27:12.131 --> 00:27:14.122 but now... I'm like, almost 30. 00:27:15.217 --> 00:27:17.003 The plan was always to go back. 00:27:18.846 --> 00:27:20.802 Hopefully, I won't be going alone. 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.596 You, me and Sonny? 00:27:23.684 --> 00:27:26.972 ¢y Sonny? Is he on board? 00:27:27.062 --> 00:27:28.347 He's my next ask. 00:27:28.438 --> 00:27:30.099 I'm not going without him. 00:27:30.190 --> 00:27:32.021 Look, I got Sonny. 00:27:32.943 --> 00:27:35.355 You know I can't go nowhere without you. 00:27:38.282 --> 00:27:41.069 I took care of my community, no? 00:27:41.618 --> 00:27:43.404 Hell, yes! 00:27:43.495 --> 00:27:46.328 El sueidito 2.0. 00:27:50.419 --> 00:27:53.627 Caramba, buy me a bikini! 00:27:53.714 --> 00:27:54.829 Let's go! 00:28:00.804 --> 00:28:04.012 I don't know, man. Leave Washington heights? 00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:06.215 I'd have to talk to my dad... 00:28:06.310 --> 00:28:08.096 You're just a kid. 00:28:08.187 --> 00:28:10.223 You don't even know. For real. 00:28:12.065 --> 00:28:15.398 Dominican Republic's gonna blow your mind. 00:28:15.485 --> 00:28:16.770 I ook 00:28:17.487 --> 00:28:21.275 you do you. It's all good. But don't be roping me into your thing. 00:28:21.366 --> 00:28:22.606 Yo 00:28:25.454 --> 00:28:28.662 Beach. Merengue. Carnaval. 00:28:28.749 --> 00:28:30.535 Summer all year "round. 00:28:31.084 --> 00:28:32.415 Who's gonna greet you in dr? 00:28:32.502 --> 00:28:34.709 Some cousin you saw two christmases ago? 00:28:34.796 --> 00:28:37.583 Best days of my life were there. 00:28:39.468 --> 00:28:42.426 That's the corniest thing I've ever heard. 00:28:42.512 --> 00:28:44.503 You came here when you was eight. 00:28:44.598 --> 00:28:46.008 You got... 00:28:46.099 --> 00:28:48.511 "Island memories." 00:28:49.102 --> 00:28:51.844 Not me. I was in pampers on that plane. 00:28:51.939 --> 00:28:53.804 NYC's my spot. 00:28:54.191 --> 00:28:58.150 I got my island, okay? Go get yours. 00:28:59.154 --> 00:29:00.894 Don't forget how you got your name. 00:29:05.118 --> 00:29:06.983 - Yo... - Just, fix the fridge. 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:09.866 Yeah, all right. Bro, you think you're funny? 00:29:09.957 --> 00:29:11.413 What's "usnavi" mean, anyway? 00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:12.956 That sounds weird. 00:29:13.043 --> 00:29:14.043 No, it doesn't. 00:29:14.419 --> 00:29:15.480 - Shut up. - All right. 00:29:15.504 --> 00:29:16.773 All right, all right, all right. 00:29:16.797 --> 00:29:18.628 On my dad's first trip to nueva York... 00:29:19.716 --> 00:29:21.627 He saw a passing ship on the horizon. 00:29:21.718 --> 00:29:26.963 And... he was, like, "wow, that's gonna be my son's name." 00:29:27.975 --> 00:29:30.432 Usnavi! 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:32.009 Ohh! 00:29:32.104 --> 00:29:33.514 Usnavi... 00:29:33.855 --> 00:29:35.095 I like it. 00:29:36.066 --> 00:29:37.397 Thank you. 00:29:47.953 --> 00:29:49.806 - Hi, Mr. rosario? - Yes, yes, I'm here. 00:29:49.830 --> 00:29:53.789 Yes, I'm not sure the information you received was correct. 00:29:53.875 --> 00:29:57.959 In actuality, we're still accepting tuition payments up until June. 00:29:58.046 --> 00:29:59.707 So the deadline hasn't passed? 00:29:59.798 --> 00:30:01.004 No, it has not passed. 00:30:01.091 --> 00:30:03.173 Would you like to know the remaining balance? 00:30:03.260 --> 00:30:05.797 Uh, yes. I have a pencil. 00:30:05.887 --> 00:30:08.094 Sure, the balance that's due for the fall semester... 00:30:16.815 --> 00:30:19.306 Now, remember, the block was disappearing. 00:30:19.401 --> 00:30:22.108 Exhibit a: Daniela's salon. 00:30:22.195 --> 00:30:25.437 Moving in a week, after decades of makeovers.. 00:30:25.532 --> 00:30:28.365 The skin-deep kind and the emotional kind. 00:30:28.452 --> 00:30:30.033 No one could fill her shoes. 00:30:30.120 --> 00:30:32.782 Literally, they were like four inches high. 00:30:32.873 --> 00:30:34.934 He doesn't have an apartment. He doesn't pay rent anywhere. 00:30:34.958 --> 00:30:36.914 He's bouncing between two girls' houses. 00:30:37.002 --> 00:30:39.664 - Of course he is. - Mm-bhbm. Mm-hhm. Mm-hm_ 00:30:39.755 --> 00:30:42.292 You know what? It's mad we allow ourselves to be hurt 00:30:42.382 --> 00:30:44.485 - we need to have a better standard. - That's what I'm saying. 00:30:44.509 --> 00:30:46.340 Tres paradas... 00:30:47.721 --> 00:30:51.179 - And you're at the new spot. - Mira, ;qué parte es la que no entiendes? 00:30:51.266 --> 00:30:55.009 I'm too old, and the Bronx is too far. 00:30:55.479 --> 00:30:58.141 ¢ qué voy a hacer? I was priced out. 00:30:58.231 --> 00:30:59.812 Y yo no soy la unica. 00:31:00.233 --> 00:31:03.396 Most of my clients already up and moved to the grand concourse. 00:31:03.487 --> 00:31:04.897 Hey, built in customers. 00:31:04.988 --> 00:31:07.070 My lunch break isn't long enough for that trip, Dani. 00:31:07.157 --> 00:31:09.489 Jessica... 00:31:09.576 --> 00:31:12.033 One: Swipe the fare card. 00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:14.327 Two: Ride three stops. 00:31:14.414 --> 00:31:16.279 Three: Arrive at my new location. 00:31:16.375 --> 00:31:17.660 Ten minutes Max. 00:31:18.126 --> 00:31:19.832 Ten minutes? Carino. 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:22.081 What are you riding, a time machine? 00:31:22.172 --> 00:31:23.958 Excuse me? 00:31:24.049 --> 00:31:25.664 No, she didn't, right?! 00:31:26.051 --> 00:31:27.962 Our people survived slave ships. 00:31:29.346 --> 00:31:32.884 We survived taino genocide. 00:31:32.974 --> 00:31:36.808 We survived conquistadores and dictators. 00:31:36.895 --> 00:31:41.059 You're telling me we can't survive the d train to the grand concourse? 00:31:42.901 --> 00:31:45.768 Okay, okay, okay. 00:31:46.071 --> 00:31:48.187 And who cuts your hair better than me? 00:31:48.281 --> 00:31:50.021 Yo-ho! 00:31:50.117 --> 00:31:52.449 Hello, hello... 00:31:52.536 --> 00:31:54.197 How long's the wait? 00:31:54.287 --> 00:31:58.697 For you, mamita, front of the line! Joye! 00:31:58.792 --> 00:32:01.374 Emergency, coming through! 00:32:02.587 --> 00:32:04.123 Imira, Nina! 00:32:06.341 --> 00:32:08.172 Gorgeous! - Jilinda! 00:32:08.260 --> 00:32:11.844 Tell me something I don't know 00:32:11.930 --> 00:32:13.295 - jvieja! - Isucial 00:32:13.390 --> 00:32:17.759 - jcabrona! - Tell me something I don't know 00:32:17.853 --> 00:32:20.469 a little off the top “a little on the side 00:32:20.564 --> 00:32:24.648 a little bit of news you heard around the barrio 00:32:25.652 --> 00:32:28.394 tell me something I don't know 00:32:29.614 --> 00:32:33.232 bueno you didn't hear this from me 00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:36.026 but some little birdie told me 00:32:36.621 --> 00:32:39.078 ushavi had sex with yolanda 00:32:39.666 --> 00:32:40.781 ino me diga! 00:32:40.876 --> 00:32:42.082 Lay, no! 00:32:42.169 --> 00:32:45.002 He'd never go out with a skank like that 00:32:45.088 --> 00:32:47.249 - please tell me you're joking - Okay 00:32:48.258 --> 00:32:50.340 just wanted to see what you'd say 00:32:51.845 --> 00:32:54.632 tell me something I don't know 00:32:54.723 --> 00:32:57.260 mmm-hmm-mmm “what? I don't care! 00:32:58.018 --> 00:32:59.178 Jay, bendito! 00:33:01.104 --> 00:33:02.435 So, Nina 00:33:02.522 --> 00:33:04.683 I hear you been talking to Benny 00:33:05.484 --> 00:33:07.691 - and what do you hear? - Ihear plenty 00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:09.810 they say he's got quite a big... 00:33:09.905 --> 00:33:11.520 Taxij! 00:33:11.615 --> 00:33:13.981 - Ino me diga! - Okay 00:33:14.075 --> 00:33:16.908 I don't wanna know where you heard all that 00:33:16.995 --> 00:33:18.860 I don't think I know what you mean 00:33:18.955 --> 00:33:22.322 Carla, he's packing a stretch limousine 00:33:23.877 --> 00:33:26.118 tell me something I don't know 00:33:26.213 --> 00:33:27.999 long as he keeps it clean 00:33:28.256 --> 00:33:29.541 oh, god. 00:33:29.633 --> 00:33:31.373 Lay, dios mio! 00:33:33.678 --> 00:33:36.511 Nina, seriously, we knew you'd be 00:33:36.598 --> 00:33:39.965 the one to make it out 00:33:40.060 --> 00:33:42.722 I'll bet you impressed them all out west 00:33:42.812 --> 00:33:46.225 - you were always the best, no doubt - True. 00:33:46.316 --> 00:33:48.807 We want front row seats to your graduation 00:33:48.902 --> 00:33:52.861 they'll call your name and we'll scream and shout 00:33:53.698 --> 00:33:54.938 - you guys! - I 00:33:56.993 --> 00:33:58.483 I... dropped out. 00:34:03.041 --> 00:34:04.872 No me diga. 00:34:05.544 --> 00:34:07.080 Yeah. I should go. 00:34:12.467 --> 00:34:15.049 Well, that's a shitty piece of news. 00:34:15.136 --> 00:34:17.001 She probably flunked out. 00:34:17.097 --> 00:34:19.930 Or she got a little bun in the oven, you know? 00:34:21.309 --> 00:34:23.049 What the hell happened? 00:34:23.895 --> 00:34:26.557 I don't know 00:34:26.648 --> 00:34:28.604 I don't know 00:34:29.693 --> 00:34:32.309 I don't know 00:34:32.404 --> 00:34:35.692 tell me something I don't know 00:34:35.782 --> 00:34:37.147 c qué sé yo? 00:34:42.581 --> 00:34:44.617 Dani, I'm taking lunch. 00:34:44.708 --> 00:34:46.073 Go get me a soda, please? 00:34:46.167 --> 00:34:48.533 - Yeah. - Where's she sneaking off to? 00:34:48.628 --> 00:34:50.539 That was real quick. 00:34:51.047 --> 00:34:52.833 Okay, so we're gonna shave the whole thing. 00:34:54.676 --> 00:34:55.711 Vanessa. 00:35:03.018 --> 00:35:04.474 Vanessal! 00:35:06.104 --> 00:35:09.062 Vanessa, tough as nails. 00:35:09.566 --> 00:35:12.273 Dreamed of being a downtown fashion designer. 00:35:12.861 --> 00:35:15.773 To her, a suenito was something you keep a secret. 00:35:16.323 --> 00:35:21.238 The elevated train by my window doesn't faze me anymore 00:35:23.663 --> 00:35:27.406 the rattling screams don't disrupt my dreams 00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:31.163 it's a lullaby in its way 00:35:31.254 --> 00:35:34.337 the elevated train drives everyone insane 00:35:34.424 --> 00:35:38.463 but I don't mind, oh, no 00:35:38.553 --> 00:35:42.011 when I bring back boys they can't tolerate the noise 00:35:42.098 --> 00:35:45.431 and that's okay "cuz I never let them stay 00:35:45.518 --> 00:35:48.760 and one day I'm hoppin' that elevated train 00:35:48.855 --> 00:35:53.224 and I'm riding away 00:35:54.361 --> 00:35:57.728 it won't be long now 00:35:59.574 --> 00:36:01.439 the boys around the way holler at me 00:36:01.534 --> 00:36:06.494 when I'm walking down the street 00:36:06.581 --> 00:36:09.789 their machismo pride doesn't break my stride 00:36:09.876 --> 00:36:11.062 hey, good morning to you too, sweetheart. 00:36:11.086 --> 00:36:12.951 It's a compliment so they say 00:36:14.673 --> 00:36:17.585 the boys around the way holler at me every day 00:36:17.676 --> 00:36:21.419 but I don't mind, oh, no, no 00:36:21.846 --> 00:36:25.088 if I'm in the mood it will not be with some dude 00:36:25.183 --> 00:36:29.051 who is whistling 'cuz he has nothing to say 00:36:29.145 --> 00:36:32.683 or who's honking at me from a Chevrolet 00:36:32.774 --> 00:36:35.390 one day I'm hoppin' in a limousine 00:36:35.485 --> 00:36:38.147 and I'm driving away 00:36:38.238 --> 00:36:41.071 yeah, yeah, yeah 00:36:41.157 --> 00:36:44.069 it won't be long now 00:36:50.208 --> 00:36:52.415 I'm sorry. Had to rush to get here. 00:36:53.128 --> 00:36:56.586 I e-mailed you a few days ago, but I brought an extra copy. 00:36:56.673 --> 00:36:59.085 Here, just in case. It's right here. 00:36:59.843 --> 00:37:01.299 Ah, miss morales. 00:37:01.386 --> 00:37:03.547 - Yeah... yes. - Right. 00:37:03.638 --> 00:37:06.755 I'm sorry, honey. I meant to call you. 00:37:08.017 --> 00:37:10.099 Oh, uh... I got bank checks. 00:37:10.186 --> 00:37:13.394 First month, last month and security. Good as cash. 00:37:13.481 --> 00:37:17.690 It's that without a solid credit check, there's not much I can do. 00:37:18.445 --> 00:37:19.776 Maybe your parents could co-sign. 00:37:20.363 --> 00:37:22.979 Assuming they can prove income forty times the rent. 00:37:23.616 --> 00:37:25.056 You know what? Get it to me by five. 00:37:25.118 --> 00:37:26.758 I'll see what I can do. 00:37:28.747 --> 00:37:30.516 - So glad you could make it. - So good to see you. 00:37:30.540 --> 00:37:31.976 - Thanks for having us. - Good to meet you, yeah. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.728 These are the windows I was telling you about. 00:37:33.752 --> 00:37:35.458 Oh, fabulous. 00:37:35.545 --> 00:37:37.160 Absolutely gorgeous. 00:37:39.716 --> 00:37:41.547 Yo, how'd it go? 00:37:42.177 --> 00:37:43.542 Are we popping champagne? 00:37:43.636 --> 00:37:47.220 The realtor took one look at this, and was, like... "No." 00:37:47.932 --> 00:37:49.593 Well, nope on her. 00:38:49.702 --> 00:38:51.112 There's something on your shirt. 00:38:58.378 --> 00:38:59.834 Just this. 00:39:02.131 --> 00:39:06.545 Uh, my cousin over there, with his tongue hanging out... 00:39:07.929 --> 00:39:09.635 Has been meaning to ask... 00:39:12.100 --> 00:39:13.100 Yeah? 00:39:13.476 --> 00:39:17.014 What a lady like yourself... 00:39:17.939 --> 00:39:19.975 Would be doing this weekend. 00:39:22.694 --> 00:39:24.400 Does your cousin dance? 00:39:25.029 --> 00:39:28.396 Like a... drunk chita Rivera. 00:39:35.999 --> 00:39:37.284 Stop. 00:39:48.011 --> 00:39:51.469 Tell your cousin... fiesta in the heights. 00:39:52.265 --> 00:39:54.176 We can hit a few clubs. 00:39:55.643 --> 00:39:57.053 Check out the fireworks. 00:39:57.645 --> 00:39:58.930 Keep it. 00:40:02.233 --> 00:40:04.224 - Thanks. - Have a good day. 00:40:11.826 --> 00:40:13.362 Oh snap! Who's that? 00:40:13.453 --> 00:40:15.364 Don't touch me, I'm too hot! Yes! 00:40:15.455 --> 00:40:17.161 ; Qué Paso? Here I go 00:40:17.248 --> 00:40:19.034 so dope! Y tu lo sabes 00:40:19.125 --> 00:40:20.706 no pare - sigue, sigue 00:40:20.793 --> 00:40:22.954 did you see me? Freaky, freaky 00:40:23.046 --> 00:40:24.502 what a way to begin the weekend 00:40:24.589 --> 00:40:26.545 Sonny, anything you want is free, man 00:40:26.633 --> 00:40:28.589 and my dearly beloved Dominican Republic 00:40:28.676 --> 00:40:30.337 I haven't forgotten you you 00:40:30.428 --> 00:40:32.464 gonna see this honey gon' make a little money 00:40:32.555 --> 00:40:34.261 - and one day I'll hop jet blue - Jet blue 00:40:34.349 --> 00:40:37.933 but until that fateful day I'm grateful I got a destination 00:40:38.019 --> 00:40:39.429 I'm running to make it home 00:40:39.520 --> 00:40:41.977 and home's where Vanessa's running away from 00:40:42.065 --> 00:40:43.601 I'm running to make it home 00:40:43.691 --> 00:40:46.148 and home's where Vanessa's running away from 00:40:46.235 --> 00:40:52.526 the neighborhood salon is the place I am working for the moment 00:41:00.291 --> 00:41:04.204 Every day who's doin' who and why 00:41:05.380 --> 00:41:11.421 the neighborhood salon doesn't pay me what I wanna be making 00:41:11.511 --> 00:41:15.345 but I don't mind 00:41:15.640 --> 00:41:18.222 as I sweep the curb 00:41:18.309 --> 00:41:21.221 I can hear those turbo engines 00:41:21.312 --> 00:41:25.601 blazing a trail through the sky 00:41:26.526 --> 00:41:31.611 I look up and think about the years gone by 00:41:31.698 --> 00:41:35.532 one day I'm walkin' to jfk 00:41:35.618 --> 00:41:43.036 and I'm gonna fly 00:41:52.635 --> 00:41:57.174 It won't be long now 00:42:06.524 --> 00:42:11.564 Any day 00:42:19.412 --> 00:42:21.448 Girl, what the hell? 00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:23.154 Look what you did. 00:42:24.083 --> 00:42:26.449 Yes, that's my hair, girl. What you gonna do about it? 00:42:26.544 --> 00:42:27.659 And in the middle! 00:42:27.754 --> 00:42:29.914 You got me walking around here looking like a cockatoo! 00:42:30.757 --> 00:42:33.419 Chita Rivera? You said drunk chita Rivera. 00:42:33.509 --> 00:42:34.589 Who's that? 00:42:34.927 --> 00:42:36.292 Banana hat lady? 00:42:36.721 --> 00:42:38.552 No, that's Carmen Miranda. 00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:40.470 Unibrow artist lady? 00:42:40.558 --> 00:42:42.514 - What? No. - Shut up! 00:42:42.602 --> 00:42:44.642 What did they teach you for hispanic heritage month? 00:42:45.146 --> 00:42:46.636 Listen, and repeat after me. 00:42:47.106 --> 00:42:49.267 Chita, Rita, Frida, 00:42:49.358 --> 00:42:51.644 Celia, Dolores, Isabel, 00:42:51.736 --> 00:42:54.728 Sandra, Julia, rigoberta, mirabal. 00:42:55.031 --> 00:42:56.612 - Ready? - Yes! 00:42:57.492 --> 00:43:00.575 - Go. - Chita, Rita, Frida, 00:43:00.661 --> 00:43:02.322 Celia, Dolores... 00:43:02.413 --> 00:43:04.995 Isabel, Sandra, Julia... 00:43:05.083 --> 00:43:07.199 Rigoberta, mirabal. 00:43:07.293 --> 00:43:08.533 Eso es. 00:43:08.628 --> 00:43:11.461 Plus, Sonia. Supreme court justice. 00:43:11.547 --> 00:43:14.163 Come on! Let's go. 00:43:14.759 --> 00:43:15.759 Thank you. 00:43:19.013 --> 00:43:22.221 Yo, you all still open, man? Everybody closed early 'cause of the heat. 00:43:22.308 --> 00:43:24.028 - We headed to the pool. - Let's go. 00:43:24.602 --> 00:43:27.218 Oh-ho! There is a god! 00:43:28.356 --> 00:43:31.223 Yo, don't take nothing from there without my permission. 00:43:35.363 --> 00:43:37.274 Yo, come on, let's go, man. 00:43:37.365 --> 00:43:38.650 All right, all right. 00:43:38.741 --> 00:43:40.982 - Yo, Sonny, come on. - Yeah, I'm coming! 00:43:41.869 --> 00:43:43.860 Yo, answer that. 00:43:49.335 --> 00:43:50.791 Hello? 00:43:55.508 --> 00:43:57.294 Holy shit! 00:43:57.677 --> 00:43:58.507 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:43:58.594 --> 00:44:01.051 Yo, why these chancletas make my toes wrinkle? 00:44:01.139 --> 00:44:02.199 Move, come on. 00:44:02.223 --> 00:44:03.826 It's like they're squeezing my joints together. 00:44:03.850 --> 00:44:06.057 Usnavi! Take 5! 00:44:06.894 --> 00:44:08.634 Phone call! I Otto office. 00:44:08.729 --> 00:44:12.017 What, are these lotto numbers? “We sold... a winner. 00:44:12.108 --> 00:44:13.018 Yesterday. “What? 00:44:13.109 --> 00:44:14.974 Oh, shit, I played, bro. 00:44:15.069 --> 00:44:17.560 Yo, let's talk profit sharing. 00:44:17.655 --> 00:44:20.067 - I want a cut of your cut. - Yeah, my cut is zero. 00:44:20.158 --> 00:44:22.277 - Man. - What's the payout? 00:44:22.368 --> 00:44:25.610 And don't tell me no $500. I spent a lot of money on these tickets. 00:44:25.705 --> 00:44:27.320 Ninety-six thousand 00:44:27.415 --> 00:44:28.450 damn 00:44:28.541 --> 00:44:29.826 ninety-six thousand 00:44:29.917 --> 00:44:31.123 dollars? Holla! 00:44:31.210 --> 00:44:32.541 Ninety-six thousand 00:44:32.628 --> 00:44:33.993 that's a lot of spray cans 00:44:34.088 --> 00:44:35.703 ninety-six thousand 00:44:35.798 --> 00:44:38.756 yo, if I won the lotto tomorrow 00:44:38.843 --> 00:44:42.176 well, I know I wouldn't bother goin' on no spendin' spree 00:44:42.263 --> 00:44:45.050 I pick a business school and pay the entrance fee 00:44:45.141 --> 00:44:47.757 and maybe if you're lucky you'll stay friends with me 00:44:47.852 --> 00:44:50.639 I'll be a businessman richer than Nina's daddy 00:44:50.730 --> 00:44:53.392 Tiger Woods and I on the links and he's my caddy 00:44:53.482 --> 00:44:56.224 my money's makin' money I'm goin' from po' to mo' dough 00:44:56.319 --> 00:44:59.026 keep the bling I want the brass ring, like Frodo 00:44:59.113 --> 00:45:01.820 oh, no, here goes Mr. braggadocio 00:45:01.908 --> 00:45:04.900 next thing you know you lying like Pinocchio 00:45:04.994 --> 00:45:07.280 if you're scared of the bull stay out the rodeo 00:45:07.371 --> 00:45:10.488 yo, I got more flows than Obi-Wan Kenobi, oh 00:45:10.583 --> 00:45:12.915 oh, you better stop rappin' you not ready 00:45:13.002 --> 00:45:15.584 it's gonna get hot and heavy and you already sweaty 00:45:15.671 --> 00:45:18.583 - yo-yo-yo! - Yo, yo! I'm sorry was that an answer? 00:45:18.674 --> 00:45:21.757 Shut up, go home and pull your damn pants up 00:45:21.844 --> 00:45:24.335 as for you, Mr. Frodo of the shire what? 00:45:24.430 --> 00:45:27.388 96 g's ain't enough to retire... c'mon! 00:45:27.475 --> 00:45:29.807 I'll have enough to knock your ass off its axis 00:45:29.894 --> 00:45:32.510 you'll have a knapsack full of Jack after taxes 00:45:32.605 --> 00:45:35.312 - ninety-six thousand - Jay, alabanza! 00:45:35.399 --> 00:45:38.266 - Ninety-six thousand - Ino me diga! 00:45:38.361 --> 00:45:40.727 - Ninety-six thousand - I never win shit 00:45:40.821 --> 00:45:43.233 ninety-six thousand! 00:45:46.327 --> 00:45:47.679 For real, though whoo! 00:45:47.703 --> 00:45:50.194 Imagine how it would feel goin' real slow 00:45:50.289 --> 00:45:52.871 down the highway of life with no regrets 00:45:53.793 --> 00:45:57.206 and no breakin' your neck for respect or a paycheck 00:45:57.296 --> 00:45:58.502 for real, though 00:45:58.589 --> 00:46:01.126 I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw 00:46:01.217 --> 00:46:05.256 the biggest block party everybody here 00:46:05.346 --> 00:46:09.134 a weekend when we can breathe take it easy 00:46:11.352 --> 00:46:13.593 yo! Ma, it's me, check my ticket 00:46:13.688 --> 00:46:15.349 check one, two, three 00:46:15.439 --> 00:46:17.771 what would you do with ninety-six g's? 00:46:17.858 --> 00:46:18.643 Who, me? 00:46:18.734 --> 00:46:21.316 I mean, if it's just between you and me 00:46:21.404 --> 00:46:23.440 esa pregunta es tricky 00:46:23.531 --> 00:46:25.237 I know 00:46:25.324 --> 00:46:26.530 with ninety-six g's 00:46:26.617 --> 00:46:29.609 I'd start my life with a brand new lease 00:46:29.704 --> 00:46:32.537 Atlantic city with a Malibu breeze 00:46:32.623 --> 00:46:34.204 and a brand new weave 00:46:34.292 --> 00:46:35.407 ay, maybe just bleach 00:46:35.501 --> 00:46:36.866 y'all are freaks 00:46:36.961 --> 00:46:39.293 - yo, I'm just sayin' - Look at her. 00:46:39.380 --> 00:46:42.122 It's silly when we get into these crazy hypotheticals 00:46:42.216 --> 00:46:44.923 you really want some bread? Then go ahead, create a set of goals 00:46:45.011 --> 00:46:47.047 and cross them off the list as you pursue 'em 00:46:47.138 --> 00:46:49.754 and with those 96 I know precisely what I'm doing 00:46:49.849 --> 00:46:52.181 - what you doing? - What am I doing? What am I doing? 00:46:52.268 --> 00:46:55.931 It takes half of that cash just to save my ass from financial ruin 00:46:56.022 --> 00:46:57.808 Sonny can keep the coffee brewin' 00:46:57.898 --> 00:46:59.183 I'll spend a few on you 00:46:59.275 --> 00:47:01.891 "cuz the only room with a view is a room with you in it 00:47:01.986 --> 00:47:04.443 and I could give abuela Claudia the rest of it 00:47:04.530 --> 00:47:07.693 just fly me down to puerto plata I'll make the best of jt 00:47:07.783 --> 00:47:09.239 - you really love this business? - No 00:47:09.327 --> 00:47:10.362 tough, merry Christmas 00:47:10.453 --> 00:47:13.445 you're now the youngest tycoon in Washington hiznits 00:47:16.792 --> 00:47:19.534 yo, with ninety-six thousand I'd finally fix housing 00:47:19.628 --> 00:47:22.495 give the barrio computers and wireless web browsing 00:47:22.590 --> 00:47:25.252 your kids are living without a good edumacation 00:47:25.343 --> 00:47:28.176 change the station teach 'em about gentrification 00:47:28.262 --> 00:47:29.752 the rent is escalatin' “what? 00:47:29.847 --> 00:47:31.337 The rich are penetratin' “what? 00:47:31.432 --> 00:47:33.577 We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin' 00:47:33.601 --> 00:47:34.828 - what? - What about immigration? 00:47:34.852 --> 00:47:36.262 - What? - Politicians be hatin' 00:47:36.354 --> 00:47:37.639 - what? - Racism in this nation's 00:47:37.730 --> 00:47:39.721 gone from latent to blatant 00:47:39.815 --> 00:47:42.397 I'll cash my ticket and picket invest in protest 00:47:42.485 --> 00:47:45.067 never lose my focus "til the city takes notice 00:47:45.154 --> 00:47:47.395 and you know this, man! I'll never sleep 00:47:47.490 --> 00:47:50.197 because the ghetto has a million promises for me to keep 00:47:50.284 --> 00:47:52.866 ohh! 00:47:53.204 --> 00:47:55.160 You are so cute. 00:47:56.540 --> 00:47:58.872 I was just thinking off the top of my head. 00:47:58.959 --> 00:48:01.200 - What's your name? - Jen. 00:48:02.755 --> 00:48:04.916 Ninety-six k... go 00:48:05.007 --> 00:48:09.592 if I win the lottery 00:48:09.678 --> 00:48:13.466 you'll never see me again 00:48:13.557 --> 00:48:16.048 damn, we only jokin' stay broke, then 00:48:16.143 --> 00:48:20.978 I'll be downtown 00:48:21.524 --> 00:48:24.140 get a nice studio 00:48:24.235 --> 00:48:26.772 get out of the barrio 00:48:26.862 --> 00:48:28.352 for real, though 00:48:28.447 --> 00:48:31.109 - imagine how it would feel - If I win the lottery 00:48:31.200 --> 00:48:33.987 goin' real slow down the highway of life with no regrets... 00:48:34.078 --> 00:48:36.014 And no breakin' your neck you'll wonder where I've been 00:48:36.038 --> 00:48:38.074 for respect or a paycheck 00:48:38.165 --> 00:48:39.810 - ninety-six thousand - It's silly when we get 00:48:39.834 --> 00:48:41.228 into these crazy hypotheticals I'll take a break from the wheel 00:48:41.252 --> 00:48:43.438 - ninety-six thousand - We'll throw the biggest block party 00:48:43.462 --> 00:48:45.453 - everybody here - Ninety-six thousand! 00:48:45.548 --> 00:48:47.163 I'll see you around “and with those 96 00:48:47.258 --> 00:48:49.089 I know precisely what I'm doing 00:48:49.176 --> 00:48:52.418 - check one, two, three - And with the dolla, dolla 00:48:52.513 --> 00:48:55.095 - ninety-six g's - We get to holla, holla 00:48:55.182 --> 00:48:57.924 - between you and me - We rock the hot impala 00:48:58.018 --> 00:49:00.350 - breakin' your neck for respect... - Why-oh! 00:49:00.438 --> 00:49:03.521 Ninety-six g's I'll be downtown 00:49:03.607 --> 00:49:06.440 - a brand new lease - We rock beyond mafana 00:49:06.527 --> 00:49:09.018 - a Malibu breeze - See you around! 00:49:09.113 --> 00:49:11.695 A weekend when we can breathe take it easy 00:49:11.782 --> 00:49:14.740 around 00:49:14.827 --> 00:49:17.409 whoa-oh-oh! Whoa! 00:49:17.496 --> 00:49:20.078 - Whoa-oh-oh! - Yeah 00:49:20.166 --> 00:49:25.536 whoa-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh! “I'll be downtown 00:49:25.629 --> 00:49:29.087 - whoa-oh-oh! Whoa-oh-oh! - We could pay off the debts we owe 00:49:29.175 --> 00:49:32.008 - we could tell everyone we know - Whoa-oh-oh! 00:49:32.094 --> 00:49:34.676 I could get on a plane and go 00:49:34.763 --> 00:49:36.128 we be swimmin' in dough, yo 00:49:36.223 --> 00:49:38.805 no tip-toeing we'll get the dough and 00:49:38.893 --> 00:49:41.635 once we get going we're never gonna 00:49:41.729 --> 00:49:44.095 stop tip-toeing we'll get the dough and 00:49:44.190 --> 00:49:46.772 once we get going we're never gonna 00:49:46.859 --> 00:49:49.601 - ninety-six thousand - No tip-toeing 00:49:49.695 --> 00:49:52.061 - ninety-six thousand - We'll get the dough and 00:49:52.156 --> 00:49:53.771 ninety-six thousand 00:49:53.866 --> 00:49:55.302 - once we get going - We got the numbers, let's go! 00:49:55.326 --> 00:49:57.317 Ninety-six thousand 00:49:57.411 --> 00:49:59.197 - five! - Ninety-six thousand 00:49:59.288 --> 00:50:00.432 - seven! - Ninety-six thousand 00:50:00.456 --> 00:50:02.162 - sixteen! - Ninety-six thousand 00:50:02.249 --> 00:50:03.560 - twenty-six! - Ninety-six thousand 00:50:03.584 --> 00:50:06.041 - ninety-six thousand - We'll get the dough and 00:50:06.128 --> 00:50:08.710 once we get goin' we're never gonna 00:50:08.797 --> 00:50:10.128 - stop! - Thirty-three! 00:50:17.389 --> 00:50:19.300 - Nobody? - You put in ten dollars? 00:50:20.017 --> 00:50:21.553 Oh, shit. This is the one. 00:50:22.061 --> 00:50:23.471 Oh, man. 00:50:27.858 --> 00:50:30.565 - This is it! This is it! - Wait, wait, wait... 00:50:36.867 --> 00:50:37.982 So who won? 00:50:38.077 --> 00:50:39.817 That's what everyone was wondering. 00:50:39.912 --> 00:50:42.028 But the ticket was never turned in. 00:50:42.122 --> 00:50:44.454 What? Now you talking crazy, boy. 00:50:44.708 --> 00:50:47.791 - Yo, you lying. Tell us, man. - Yeah, tell us. 00:50:47.878 --> 00:50:50.790 If I knew, I would. The point is not who won... 00:50:50.881 --> 00:50:53.623 But that we all had a sueniito. 00:50:54.093 --> 00:50:57.301 And when it comes to dreams... We had to keep scraping by. 00:50:57.388 --> 00:50:59.925 Oh, qué calor, qué calor 00:51:00.015 --> 00:51:02.973 qué calor, qué calor 00:51:04.103 --> 00:51:09.063 oh, piragua, piragua 00:51:09.149 --> 00:51:11.686 new block of ice, piragua 00:51:11.777 --> 00:51:14.610 piragua, piragua - mm-mm_ 00:51:14.697 --> 00:51:17.404 So sweet and nice, piragua 00:51:17.491 --> 00:51:20.608 tengo de mango, tengo de parcha 00:51:20.703 --> 00:51:22.989 de pifia y de fresa 00:51:23.080 --> 00:51:26.038 tengo de China, de limén 00:51:26.125 --> 00:51:28.332 de peso y de peseta, jhey! 00:51:28.419 --> 00:51:31.035 Piragua, piragua 00:51:31.130 --> 00:51:33.667 new block of ice, piragua 00:51:33.757 --> 00:51:36.590 piragua, piragua 00:51:36.677 --> 00:51:39.214 so sweet and nice, piragua 00:51:42.391 --> 00:51:46.100 it's hotter than the islands are today 00:51:47.980 --> 00:51:51.814 and mister softee's trying to shut me down 00:51:53.569 --> 00:51:58.654 but I keep scraping by till I can say 00:51:58.741 --> 00:52:01.278 hey, pana, I run this town! 00:52:04.038 --> 00:52:07.201 - You hit my truck? - Keep scraping by, piragua 00:52:07.291 --> 00:52:10.033 - get out of here! This is my block. - Piragua, piragua 00:52:10.127 --> 00:52:12.914 keep scraping by, piragua 00:52:13.005 --> 00:52:15.542 keep scraping by, keep scraping by 00:52:15.633 --> 00:52:16.873 lai, lo, le, lo, lai! 00:52:16.967 --> 00:52:18.173 - Lal, lo, le, lo, lai! - Eww! 00:52:18.260 --> 00:52:21.297 Keep scraping by, keep scraping by 00:52:21.388 --> 00:52:28.135 lo, le, lo, lai! Keep scraping by 00:52:28.228 --> 00:52:31.311 oh, qué calor, qué calor 00:52:31.398 --> 00:52:35.437 qué calor, qué calor, qué calor 00:52:35.527 --> 00:52:37.188 hal 00:52:39.198 --> 00:52:40.198 punk! 00:52:43.202 --> 00:52:45.534 Stitchwork like this doesn't exist anymore. 00:52:45.621 --> 00:52:46.656 Mm-hm. 00:52:47.247 --> 00:52:49.454 Handmade by an old friend. 00:52:49.541 --> 00:52:51.657 How much will you take for 'em? 00:52:51.752 --> 00:52:55.119 Oh, no, no. Not for sale. 00:52:55.798 --> 00:52:58.756 They're for a special occasion this weekend. 00:52:58.842 --> 00:53:01.754 - Does tomorrow by 4:00 work? - Oh, perfect! 00:53:02.137 --> 00:53:05.880 - Gracias. - All right, that's nine apiece times 12... 00:53:06.433 --> 00:53:08.549 Plus tax. I'll waive the rush fee. 00:53:08.644 --> 00:53:09.724 Oh. 00:53:10.229 --> 00:53:11.844 Cash or credit? 00:53:14.108 --> 00:53:15.108 Bueno. 00:53:15.693 --> 00:53:18.025 - Let me think about it. - Of course. 00:53:22.366 --> 00:53:24.197 Welcome to the block. 00:53:28.163 --> 00:53:29.369 Admit it. 00:53:29.456 --> 00:53:31.538 You're happy I didn't make it at Stanford. 00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:36.202 I mean, Nina, I'm not gonna lie. 00:53:37.631 --> 00:53:38.791 This feels great. 00:53:40.551 --> 00:53:43.964 Girl gets into nyu, she gets into Columbia... 00:53:44.054 --> 00:53:47.171 - But she had to go to the farthest place. - Who broke up with who? 00:53:47.975 --> 00:53:49.575 Nina, I'm not gonna be a ball and chain. 00:53:50.060 --> 00:53:52.176 Right, I told you... we talked ab... 00:53:52.271 --> 00:53:54.683 - Here we go. - What do you mean, "here we go"? 00:53:54.773 --> 00:53:57.105 Shh. Let me just listen to my block. 00:54:13.167 --> 00:54:15.123 I used to think 00:54:15.711 --> 00:54:19.829 we lived at the top of the world 00:54:20.340 --> 00:54:24.003 when the world was just a subway map 00:54:25.387 --> 00:54:28.254 and the one-slash-nine 00:54:28.348 --> 00:54:33.433 climbed a dotted line to my place 00:54:34.313 --> 00:54:37.771 there's no nine train how 00:54:42.029 --> 00:54:43.360 right. 00:54:44.406 --> 00:54:46.397 I used to think 00:54:46.492 --> 00:54:51.077 the Bronx was a place in the sky 00:54:51.163 --> 00:54:55.327 when the world was just a subway map 00:54:55.876 --> 00:54:58.959 and my thoughts took shape 00:54:59.046 --> 00:55:02.038 on that fire escape 00:55:04.051 --> 00:55:08.010 can you remind me 00:55:08.096 --> 00:55:10.712 of what it was like 00:55:12.184 --> 00:55:15.551 at the top of the world? 00:55:19.274 --> 00:55:21.731 Come with me 00:55:22.486 --> 00:55:23.797 oh, no. 00:55:23.821 --> 00:55:25.027 Let's go. 00:55:25.113 --> 00:55:29.026 We begin July with a stop at my corner fire hydrant 00:55:29.117 --> 00:55:34.202 you would open it every summer 00:55:34.289 --> 00:55:36.996 I would bust it with a wrench till my face got drenched 00:55:37.084 --> 00:55:38.449 till I heard the sirens - yep. 00:55:38.544 --> 00:55:41.251 And then I ran like hell you ran like hell 00:55:41.338 --> 00:55:44.045 - yeah, I ran like hell - I remember well 00:55:44.132 --> 00:55:45.401 to your father's dispatch window 00:55:45.425 --> 00:55:48.007 "hey, let me in, yo they're coming to get me!" 00:55:48.095 --> 00:55:52.088 You were always in constant trouble 00:55:52.182 --> 00:55:52.921 no, I wasn't. 00:55:53.016 --> 00:55:55.632 Then your dad would act all snide but he'd let me hide 00:55:55.727 --> 00:55:57.467 you'd be there inside 00:55:57.563 --> 00:55:59.929 life was easier then 00:56:00.023 --> 00:56:04.232 Nina, everything is easier when you're home 00:56:04.820 --> 00:56:09.063 the street's a little kinder when you're home 00:56:09.658 --> 00:56:14.197 can't you see that the day seems clearer 00:56:14.621 --> 00:56:17.954 now that you are here or is it me? 00:56:19.167 --> 00:56:20.998 Maybe it's just me 00:56:21.587 --> 00:56:23.828 we gotta go I wanna show you all I know 00:56:23.922 --> 00:56:26.004 the sun is setting and the light is getting low 00:56:26.091 --> 00:56:30.004 are we going to castle garden? 00:56:30.095 --> 00:56:33.258 Maybe, maybe not, but way to take a shot when the day is hot 00:56:33.348 --> 00:56:35.464 I got a perfect shady spot a little ways away 00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:37.675 - that oughta cool us down - Cool us down 00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:39.851 welcome back to town - hey! 00:56:39.938 --> 00:56:42.520 Now, back in high school when it darkened 00:56:42.608 --> 00:56:44.690 you'd hang out in Bennett park 00:56:44.776 --> 00:56:49.065 and usnavi would bring his radio 00:56:49.573 --> 00:56:51.985 as I walked home from senior studies 00:56:52.075 --> 00:56:54.157 I'd see you rapping with your buddies 00:56:54.244 --> 00:56:56.906 - with the volume high - I walked on by 00:56:56.997 --> 00:56:59.158 you walked on by 00:56:59.291 --> 00:57:01.907 - hey! - Hey-hey! 00:57:02.002 --> 00:57:03.788 Ino pare! Jsigue, sigue! 00:57:03.879 --> 00:57:06.291 - Ohhh! - Ino pare! Jsigue, sigue! 00:57:06.381 --> 00:57:07.712 - Get in here, girl! - No 00:57:07.799 --> 00:57:08.834 come on! 00:57:08.926 --> 00:57:11.008 Ino pare! Jsigue, sigue! 00:57:11.094 --> 00:57:15.303 Jno pare! Jsigue, sigue! Ino pare! Jsigue, sigue! 00:57:15.390 --> 00:57:18.848 Jno pare! Jsigue, sigue! Ino pare! Jsigue! 00:57:18.936 --> 00:57:22.053 When you're home 00:57:22.147 --> 00:57:25.685 the summer nights are cooler when you're home 00:57:25.776 --> 00:57:28.483 now that you're here with me 00:57:28.570 --> 00:57:31.232 and that song you are hearing 00:57:31.323 --> 00:57:34.440 is the neighborhood just cheering you along 00:57:34.534 --> 00:57:36.741 don't say that - what's wrong? 00:57:36.828 --> 00:57:38.364 Don't say that! 00:57:38.789 --> 00:57:42.623 When I was younger I'd imagine what would happen 00:57:42.709 --> 00:57:46.418 if my parents had stayed in Puerto Rico 00:57:48.215 --> 00:57:52.049 who would I be if I had never seen Manhattan 00:57:52.135 --> 00:57:55.798 if I lived in Puerto Rico with my people 00:57:55.889 --> 00:57:57.595 my people 00:57:57.683 --> 00:58:01.471 I feel like all my life I've tried to find the answer 00:58:01.561 --> 00:58:03.847 working harder, learning Spanish 00:58:03.939 --> 00:58:06.726 learning all I can 00:58:06.817 --> 00:58:11.277 I thought I might find the answer out at Stanford 00:58:11.363 --> 00:58:13.945 but I'd stare out at the sea 00:58:14.700 --> 00:58:17.533 thinking, where am I supposed to be? 00:58:18.370 --> 00:58:21.112 So please don't say you're proud of me 00:58:21.206 --> 00:58:23.948 when I've lost my way 00:58:29.423 --> 00:58:32.381 Then can I say 00:58:32.467 --> 00:58:36.255 I couldn't get my mind off you all day 00:58:37.764 --> 00:58:42.679 now, listen to me that may be how you perceive it 00:58:42.769 --> 00:58:49.106 but Nina please believe that when you find your way again 00:58:49.651 --> 00:58:52.563 you are gonna change the world and then 00:58:52.654 --> 00:58:54.360 we're all gonna brag 00:58:54.448 --> 00:58:59.863 and say we knew her when 00:58:59.953 --> 00:59:01.238 yeah 00:59:01.329 --> 00:59:04.116 this was your home - I'm home 00:59:04.207 --> 00:59:09.247 - welcome home - When you're here with me 00:59:09.337 --> 00:59:12.329 - welcome home - I used to think we lived 00:59:12.424 --> 00:59:16.793 at the top of the world welcome home 00:59:17.429 --> 00:59:23.846 you're finally home 00:59:30.317 --> 00:59:31.932 I'm home. 00:59:41.995 --> 00:59:43.576 Hey, boss, I got your caffeine. 00:59:44.790 --> 00:59:46.496 I'm in a meeting. 00:59:49.753 --> 00:59:51.289 Oh, hey, pike. 00:59:53.507 --> 00:59:54.792 Everything okay? 00:59:54.883 --> 00:59:57.044 Thank you, Benny. Thank you very much. 00:59:57.135 --> 01:00:00.798 - Need anything else? - No, no. We're good, thank you very much. 01:00:00.889 --> 01:00:01.889 If you need... 01:00:01.932 --> 01:00:03.297 - Good kid. - Yes. 01:00:03.391 --> 01:00:05.177 Café con leche. 01:00:06.269 --> 01:00:08.510 Number twelve 01:00:12.317 --> 01:00:14.103 it's better than his current school. 01:00:14.194 --> 01:00:16.150 I can pay for his flights, to and from. 01:00:16.530 --> 01:00:18.270 Christmas, summers... 01:00:18.365 --> 01:00:20.651 Just so that he doesn't go too long without seeing you. 01:00:21.827 --> 01:00:23.738 And, you know, I know you're his dad, 01:00:23.829 --> 01:00:26.571 and I'm just his big cousin, but... 01:00:27.290 --> 01:00:30.703 I mean... this could be good for him. 01:00:38.051 --> 01:00:39.757 You're unsure. 01:00:40.637 --> 01:00:42.173 Talk to me. 01:00:50.730 --> 01:00:53.437 Chill out. You're hovering. 01:00:53.525 --> 01:00:55.390 You're doing that thing, you should... 01:01:01.158 --> 01:01:02.614 That's your first of the day? 01:01:11.626 --> 01:01:14.333 Listen, if I could be like... 01:01:16.298 --> 01:01:19.335 "Out you go, Sonny," I would. 01:01:21.845 --> 01:01:23.335 I thought about it. 01:01:25.015 --> 01:01:26.505 But, I can't. 01:01:27.309 --> 01:01:29.595 The kid doesn't listen to shit I say, anyway. 01:01:34.524 --> 01:01:37.231 - So is that a yes? - Is it a yes? 01:01:39.237 --> 01:01:41.774 Tio... come on, man. 01:01:42.699 --> 01:01:46.237 He's a good kid. He's smart. He's funny. 01:01:47.037 --> 01:01:48.117 He cares. 01:01:48.205 --> 01:01:51.288 That kid does well in school, he works hard. 01:01:51.374 --> 01:01:53.035 And I could tell you. 01:01:53.126 --> 01:01:56.038 I'm with him every day. Working in my store. 01:01:56.129 --> 01:01:58.836 I got that kid working to the bone, but look, I'm... 01:01:58.924 --> 01:02:02.132 He has an opportunity to have a life that you and me didn't have. 01:02:03.094 --> 01:02:04.550 Come on, tio. 01:02:07.641 --> 01:02:09.472 How do you pay him? 01:02:13.521 --> 01:02:15.136 Cash. 01:02:16.024 --> 01:02:17.685 Ever wonder why? 01:02:18.610 --> 01:02:20.191 Fver? 01:02:34.292 --> 01:02:35.953 - Perdon, Alejandro. - Hey. 01:02:36.044 --> 01:02:39.377 Thank you for letting me come in last minute. 01:02:41.800 --> 01:02:45.213 I was just wondering about the status of the deposit. 01:02:45.303 --> 01:02:47.840 Oh! We got good news, mijo. 01:02:47.931 --> 01:02:49.842 The check is cashed. 01:02:51.101 --> 01:02:52.466 Es tuyo. 01:02:52.560 --> 01:02:54.801 So there's no chance, like, if I wanted to hold off 01:02:54.896 --> 01:02:58.730 just to tie up some loose ends before... Before I go. 01:02:58.817 --> 01:03:00.023 Tu no me oiste? 01:03:00.110 --> 01:03:02.271 The place is yours, mijo. 01:03:07.742 --> 01:03:09.573 Yeah, well... 01:03:09.661 --> 01:03:11.447 You got cold feet? 01:03:12.580 --> 01:03:14.662 No no. 01:03:15.625 --> 01:03:17.456 No, man. I mean, that's amazing. 01:03:17.544 --> 01:03:19.785 That's amazing. Thank you again. 01:03:19.879 --> 01:03:23.167 You know, just, life throws you curve balls, but... 01:03:23.258 --> 01:03:26.091 I'll figure it out. Thank you again. 01:03:28.888 --> 01:03:30.628 Felicitaciones, mijo. 01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:34.762 - A dream come true, right? - Of course. 01:03:58.752 --> 01:04:01.710 So... Sonny's dad is okay with him leaving? 01:04:03.465 --> 01:04:06.172 Yeah he's fine with it. 01:04:06.259 --> 01:04:07.749 That's great. 01:04:08.553 --> 01:04:10.544 Pero you wore your papi's hat? 01:04:11.473 --> 01:04:13.213 Yeah it fits. 01:04:13.308 --> 01:04:15.048 Ay, qué guapo! 01:04:15.143 --> 01:04:17.759 Ioh, qué lindo! 01:04:17.854 --> 01:04:21.392 Oye, llévame ese pan y esas galleticas a la mesa. 01:04:21.483 --> 01:04:24.065 - Okay, okay. - Okay? Gracias, mi amor. 01:04:24.152 --> 01:04:26.484 - Abuela. - Mira lo que hice. 01:04:31.076 --> 01:04:32.612 Hey. 01:04:32.702 --> 01:04:36.286 I want to talk to you. Not now, but... you know. 01:04:36.373 --> 01:04:37.909 Oh, yeah. Okay. 01:04:37.999 --> 01:04:39.864 It's open! 01:04:44.798 --> 01:04:45.858 Oh, we're in trouble now. 01:04:45.882 --> 01:04:48.123 - How cute! - Oh, my god, I love that dress. 01:04:48.218 --> 01:04:49.708 I love your dress. 01:04:56.518 --> 01:04:58.349 Yo, look at this. 01:05:12.033 --> 01:05:13.489 Good luck. 01:05:18.415 --> 01:05:20.121 You're gonna need it. 01:05:36.683 --> 01:05:38.014 Hey. 01:05:42.105 --> 01:05:43.595 Hey. 01:05:44.607 --> 01:05:46.097 What? 01:05:46.860 --> 01:05:49.772 I'm sorry, you just... You look amazing. 01:05:50.155 --> 01:05:52.567 - Thanks. - My favorite color. 01:05:56.035 --> 01:05:57.400 Well, I... 01:05:58.037 --> 01:06:00.369 Have a date tonight, so... 01:06:02.750 --> 01:06:04.286 Word. 01:06:04.377 --> 01:06:05.913 Right. That's right. 01:06:06.504 --> 01:06:07.914 You have a date. 01:06:08.715 --> 01:06:10.876 - I have a date, too. - Oh, you do? 01:06:10.967 --> 01:06:13.583 We we have a date. 01:06:14.137 --> 01:06:16.173 We have a date. This is a date. 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:21.140 Let me get you a drink. 01:06:22.562 --> 01:06:23.972 Think fast. 01:06:30.487 --> 01:06:32.694 All right, let's clean this up before abuela gets here. 01:06:35.116 --> 01:06:37.698 Usnavi, Vanessa. Ven, baila. 01:06:40.038 --> 01:06:44.998 No te vayas 01:06:45.084 --> 01:06:50.420 - si me dejas - No, not this song again! 01:06:50.965 --> 01:06:56.005 Si te alejas 01:06:56.095 --> 01:06:58.802 de mi 01:06:58.890 --> 01:07:01.597 sequiras en mis recuerdos 01:07:01.684 --> 01:07:04.221 para siempre... para siempre... 01:07:04.312 --> 01:07:05.722 Para siempre... 01:07:05.813 --> 01:07:08.225 That scratch on the record is her favorite part. 01:07:08.316 --> 01:07:09.647 Para siempre... 01:07:10.109 --> 01:07:13.101 The scratch on the record is my favorite part. 01:07:18.785 --> 01:07:19.945 Hey! 01:07:26.751 --> 01:07:28.036 Wow. 01:07:28.127 --> 01:07:29.480 You don't want any of it? 01:07:29.504 --> 01:07:31.665 Oh, yeah, you're trying to be vegan, right? 01:07:31.756 --> 01:07:33.712 Let me give you a vegan pastel. 01:07:50.149 --> 01:07:53.892 Nina! You got sauce on my sleeve! 01:07:54.696 --> 01:07:57.233 Tsk! Pass me a tissue or something. 01:07:57.323 --> 01:07:59.234 No, I got you. 01:08:00.535 --> 01:08:02.241 You're good. “Wow. 01:08:02.328 --> 01:08:03.818 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:08:03.913 --> 01:08:06.529 - Mirenlo. - Now you know. 01:08:06.624 --> 01:08:08.704 - Be generous. - Yeah, we're gonna get it out. 01:08:10.044 --> 01:08:12.410 - Wow. - You know what I'm sayin... 01:08:16.676 --> 01:08:17.791 Nice. 01:08:18.553 --> 01:08:20.009 I take note. 01:08:26.394 --> 01:08:29.136 You know, my first business, I was, like, seven or eight. 01:08:29.230 --> 01:08:31.437 You know what? Every time you tell the story, 01:08:31.524 --> 01:08:33.230 you're a different age, and you get younger 01:08:33.318 --> 01:08:35.379 - and younger and younger. - I was seven or eight... 01:08:35.403 --> 01:08:37.519 I took a rag and a coffee can, 01:08:37.614 --> 01:08:41.653 I went to the Plaza in arecibo to shine shoes for a nickel. 01:08:41.743 --> 01:08:44.735 But every nickel went to shoe Polish, right? 01:08:44.829 --> 01:08:46.515 Because the next time I could charge a dime. 01:08:46.539 --> 01:08:49.781 - Wow, my man was a hustler. - 'Cause you got that investment brain. 01:08:49.876 --> 01:08:52.367 - Hey, Benny! - Hey, yo! 01:08:52.462 --> 01:08:54.662 - The party's just starting, siéntate. - Sorry I'm late. 01:08:54.714 --> 01:08:57.330 - Let me make you a plate. - No, no, I'm not hungry. 01:08:57.425 --> 01:08:58.756 Benny, not hungry? 01:08:58.843 --> 01:09:01.676 Pero come. Hay tanta comida. 01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:06.218 Yo, Kevin, that meeting I walked in on with you and pike Phillips... 01:09:06.601 --> 01:09:08.432 Is that what I thought it was? 01:09:08.519 --> 01:09:10.497 'Cause, you know, I keep playing it on loop, and... 01:09:10.521 --> 01:09:13.228 Adios. I was saving that news for dessert. 01:09:13.858 --> 01:09:15.223 What news? 01:09:17.862 --> 01:09:22.401 You know, when pike originally approached me, he wanted the whole space. 01:09:22.992 --> 01:09:24.983 So today, I reopened the conversation. 01:09:25.078 --> 01:09:26.238 Felicidades, papi. 01:09:26.329 --> 01:09:27.739 - What? - I knew it. 01:09:28.456 --> 01:09:30.321 I guess we're gonna do this now, huh? 01:09:32.585 --> 01:09:35.201 Nina... it was about your age 01:09:35.296 --> 01:09:38.379 that your mother and I, god rest her soul, we came here 01:09:38.466 --> 01:09:41.549 and we emptied our savings to put a down payment on rosario's. 01:09:41.636 --> 01:09:44.628 Two burgundy Cadillacs, that was your fleet! 01:09:44.722 --> 01:09:47.509 Mm. Start small, dream big. 01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:48.600 Mm. 01:09:49.185 --> 01:09:50.846 I look at you, mija, I see her. 01:09:50.937 --> 01:09:52.518 Y te lo juro, if she were here, 01:09:52.605 --> 01:09:54.416 she would've done the same thing that I did today. 01:09:54.440 --> 01:09:55.930 Dad 01:09:56.025 --> 01:09:57.231 I sold rosario's. 01:09:57.318 --> 01:09:58.504 Jfelicidades! “What? 01:09:58.528 --> 01:10:00.689 - Raise a glass. - Jfelicidades! 01:10:00.780 --> 01:10:02.896 Yes, get that schmoney! 01:10:04.158 --> 01:10:07.742 To Nina, hm? Who can now finish what she started at Stanford. 01:10:07.829 --> 01:10:09.444 To Nina! 01:10:10.415 --> 01:10:11.951 - To Nina. - To Nina. 01:10:12.417 --> 01:10:14.624 Nina, say, "thank you, papi." 01:10:16.254 --> 01:10:18.210 Dad... the deadline passed. 01:10:18.297 --> 01:10:20.737 - I don't know what you're talking about. - Imentira, mentira! 01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:22.836 Stop with the lying, huh? I called them. 01:10:24.971 --> 01:10:27.508 I called them! Stop trying to protect me here. 01:10:27.598 --> 01:10:29.478 There were other things other than the finances. 01:10:29.517 --> 01:10:30.802 Did you not hear what I said? 01:10:30.893 --> 01:10:32.804 Yes, about the ignorant idiotas... 01:10:32.895 --> 01:10:34.665 That's the same thing that we foresaw when we came! 01:10:34.689 --> 01:10:36.041 No, it's not the same thing, dad. 01:10:36.065 --> 01:10:37.305 It is not the same. 01:10:37.400 --> 01:10:41.313 When you came here and mom came here, you all had a latino community 01:10:41.404 --> 01:10:44.271 ready to welcome you, open arms, babies and abuelas, 01:10:44.365 --> 01:10:46.947 and teachers and lawyers, first generation, fifth generation... 01:10:47.660 --> 01:10:49.616 There's no community for me at school. 01:10:53.958 --> 01:10:55.198 I got searched. 01:10:59.005 --> 01:11:00.165 Yeah 01:11:01.174 --> 01:11:02.539 I got searched. 01:11:04.886 --> 01:11:06.751 On moving day... 01:11:09.140 --> 01:11:13.850 My roommate lost her Pearl necklace and... 01:11:13.936 --> 01:11:17.804 The ra and her parents came in... 01:11:18.858 --> 01:11:21.850 And searched me and they... 01:11:22.153 --> 01:11:25.941 Emptied my drawers, turned over my purse... 01:11:26.032 --> 01:11:28.068 And I just stood there. 01:11:28.868 --> 01:11:32.360 I stood there and didn't say anything. 01:11:32.455 --> 01:11:35.913 And then eventually, they found it... In her bag. 01:11:37.502 --> 01:11:38.787 You're the best we've got, Nina. 01:11:38.878 --> 01:11:41.023 If you can't stay in the ring, what's that gonna say about us? 01:11:41.047 --> 01:11:43.538 You can't keep putting your life's work on my shoulders, dad. 01:11:43.633 --> 01:11:45.669 Dile, mi gente, isn't she the best we got? 01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:47.876 And then I apologize like an idiot. 01:11:47.970 --> 01:11:51.258 I stood there, I didn't do anything, and then I apologized. 01:11:51.349 --> 01:11:53.556 Well, you keep getting a's, baby, that's your revenge. 01:11:53.643 --> 01:11:56.305 - My god, you're not hearing her, Kevin. - I'm not going back! 01:11:56.395 --> 01:11:57.851 - ¢.coémo? - I'm not going back! 01:11:57.939 --> 01:12:00.351 So all of my decisions can just go to hell here? 01:12:00.817 --> 01:12:03.809 - I'm doing this for you! - No, you're doing it for you! 01:12:03.903 --> 01:12:05.643 What if I refuse your money? 01:12:05.738 --> 01:12:07.444 What if I don't want it? 01:12:08.825 --> 01:12:10.690 Mirame en los ojos. 01:12:15.456 --> 01:12:16.912 I refuse. 01:12:29.554 --> 01:12:30.919 She refused. 01:12:34.475 --> 01:12:37.467 Okay, se acabé todo. Get out! 01:12:41.941 --> 01:12:44.478 Fiesta in the heights! 01:13:02.712 --> 01:13:04.327 Vanessa! 01:13:06.757 --> 01:13:07.917 Damn, this is nice 01:13:08.009 --> 01:13:10.295 I really like what they've done with the lights 01:13:10.386 --> 01:13:12.593 so, the hot club in Washington heights 01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:14.671 you might be right this music's tight 01:13:14.765 --> 01:13:17.051 yo, did I mention that you look great tonight 01:13:17.143 --> 01:13:21.386 - because you do you really... - Usnavi, relax! 01:13:21.480 --> 01:13:24.688 - Relax, qué relaxed? I'm relaxed - Wepa, Vanessa! 01:13:24.775 --> 01:13:26.390 So you've been here before 01:13:26.485 --> 01:13:28.601 I don't go out I get so busy with the store 01:13:28.696 --> 01:13:30.687 y cada dia it's a brand new chore 01:13:30.781 --> 01:13:33.067 my arms are sore no time for the dance floor 01:13:33.159 --> 01:13:35.491 but maybe you and me should hang out some more 01:13:35.578 --> 01:13:39.867 - I'm such a dork, but I... - Let's go get a drink 01:13:39.957 --> 01:13:41.913 something sweet you know me 01:13:42.001 --> 01:13:45.493 - a little bit of cinnamon - Wepa, Vanessa! 01:13:54.764 --> 01:13:57.756 - Here's to getting fired - To killing the mood 01:13:57.850 --> 01:13:59.215 salud! 01:13:59.310 --> 01:14:02.393 - Without so much as a thank you - After all these years 01:14:02.480 --> 01:14:03.686 cheers! 01:14:03.773 --> 01:14:05.388 To finally getting Vanessa 01:14:05.483 --> 01:14:08.270 boy, fix your collar - holler! 01:14:08.361 --> 01:14:10.022 To doing shots on the weekend 01:14:10.112 --> 01:14:12.694 as long as you buy 'em I'Chaim! 01:14:12.782 --> 01:14:14.613 Hey you. You - who? Who, me? 01:14:14.700 --> 01:14:16.315 - You wanna dance? - Naw, man 01:14:16.410 --> 01:14:17.900 okay, I took my chance 01:14:17.995 --> 01:14:20.111 it's cool, it's cool hey, if you want to 01:14:20.206 --> 01:14:22.037 - you don't mind? - I'm fine, I'm fine 01:14:23.334 --> 01:14:25.916 - who's Vanessa talkin' to? - Some dude 01:14:26.003 --> 01:14:27.038 some dude? 01:14:27.129 --> 01:14:29.165 That's messed up she's tryin' to make you jealous 01:14:29.256 --> 01:14:31.696 jealous? I ain't jealous I can take all these fellas, whatever 01:14:35.471 --> 01:14:36.881 oh, shit! 01:14:45.856 --> 01:14:46.856 Hmm. 01:14:56.450 --> 01:14:58.361 Vanessa let me get the next one 01:14:58.452 --> 01:15:01.034 Vanessa, let me interject some 01:15:01.122 --> 01:15:03.704 the way you sweat the way you flex on the floor 01:15:03.791 --> 01:15:05.281 it makes me want you more 01:15:05.376 --> 01:15:07.742 Vanessa, let me get the next one 01:15:07.837 --> 01:15:10.044 Vanessa, let me interject some 01:15:10.131 --> 01:15:12.713 the way you sweat the way you flex on the floor 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:14.916 it makes me want you more 01:15:15.011 --> 01:15:16.717 Vanessa, let me get the next one 01:15:16.804 --> 01:15:18.886 Vanessa, let me interject some 01:15:18.973 --> 01:15:22.010 the way you sweat the way you flex on the floor 01:15:22.101 --> 01:15:24.057 it makes me want you more 01:15:24.145 --> 01:15:25.145 bartender! 01:15:25.229 --> 01:15:27.265 Let me get an amaretto sour for this ghetto flower 01:15:27.356 --> 01:15:29.813 how are you so pretty? You complete me 01:15:29.900 --> 01:15:31.420 you had me at "hello" you know you need me 01:15:31.444 --> 01:15:33.435 truly, madly, deeply let's get freaky 01:15:33.529 --> 01:15:35.440 oh, I get it you're the strong and silent type 01:15:35.531 --> 01:15:38.568 well, I'm the Caribbean island type and I can drive you wild all night 01:15:38.659 --> 01:15:40.820 but I digress say something so I don't stress 01:15:40.911 --> 01:15:42.151 no hablo inglés 01:15:42.246 --> 01:15:43.281 yes! 01:15:53.507 --> 01:15:55.168 Whoa! 01:16:59.406 --> 01:17:01.566 - Te iba a buscar. - Where you been? 01:17:01.784 --> 01:17:03.220 Yo, you been doing your thing all night! 01:17:03.244 --> 01:17:04.404 You owe me a dance. 01:17:04.453 --> 01:17:06.213 Yeah, hold up. Wait, wait. Let's take a shot. 01:17:06.247 --> 01:17:07.783 - You want a shot? - No, it's fine. 01:17:07.873 --> 01:17:08.988 Let me get you a shot. 01:17:09.083 --> 01:17:11.483 - I'll be right back, I'll be right back! - No, stay! Usnavi! 01:17:14.255 --> 01:17:15.870 Two shots, please! Same thing. 01:17:32.690 --> 01:17:34.931 Oye, qué Paso? Blackout, blackout! 01:17:35.025 --> 01:17:37.311 Vino El apagon iay, dios! 01:17:37.403 --> 01:17:39.769 - Oye, ¢squé Paso? - Blackout! Blackout! 01:17:39.864 --> 01:17:41.650 Vino El apagon iay, dios! 01:17:41.740 --> 01:17:49.740 We are powerless 01:17:51.625 --> 01:17:54.332 somebody better open these goddamn doors 01:17:54.420 --> 01:17:57.912 somebody better open these goddamn doors 01:17:58.007 --> 01:18:01.170 - we are powerless - I can't find usnavi! 01:18:01.260 --> 01:18:03.797 - Vanessa! - Nina, where'd you go? 01:18:03.888 --> 01:18:06.379 - Has anyone seen Benny? - Nina, where'd you go? 01:18:06.473 --> 01:18:09.180 - Benny! - Nina, where'd you go? 01:18:09.268 --> 01:18:10.804 - I can't find you! - Usnavi! 01:18:10.895 --> 01:18:12.931 It's hotter in the street everybody is nervous 01:18:13.022 --> 01:18:15.388 hey, yo, we gotta be usnhavi streetlights out of service 01:18:15.482 --> 01:18:17.438 because we're powerless our hour is at hand 01:18:17.526 --> 01:18:19.326 - it's you and me - You know what we gotta do? 01:18:19.403 --> 01:18:20.438 Illuminate the community 01:18:20.529 --> 01:18:22.986 when the sparks ignite we gon' light up the night 01:18:23.073 --> 01:18:25.485 bottle rockets loco locus everybody, let's focus 01:18:25.576 --> 01:18:27.470 gather 'round, these are free grab your ammo and stack up 01:18:27.494 --> 01:18:29.450 give me a light till the power comes 01:18:29.538 --> 01:18:30.948 back up, back up, back up! 01:18:35.628 --> 01:18:36.813 Look at the fireworks 01:18:36.837 --> 01:18:40.125 look at the fireworks fly 01:18:40.216 --> 01:18:45.461 light up the night sky 01:18:45.554 --> 01:18:46.714 look at the fireworks 01:18:46.805 --> 01:18:50.013 look at the fireworks fly 01:18:50.100 --> 01:18:55.345 light up the night sky 01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:57.959 - when was the last time you saw her? - On the dance floor, man! 01:18:58.484 --> 01:19:01.004 - Did she text you? Did she call you? - That taxi is mine! 01:19:01.028 --> 01:19:02.672 I called her twice and I texted her. 01:19:02.696 --> 01:19:04.903 - She not hittin' me back. - Get out of my car! 01:19:05.908 --> 01:19:07.364 I gotta get to the dispatch, man. 01:19:07.451 --> 01:19:09.692 Yo, I gotta wait for Vanessa, man. I gotta find her. 01:19:10.204 --> 01:19:12.766 - What are you talking about? - Look, I might not have a job tomorrow, 01:19:12.790 --> 01:19:14.576 but I still got one tonight, Nina. 01:19:15.084 --> 01:19:16.084 Let it go. 01:19:17.503 --> 01:19:20.870 I can't. Just stick with usnauvi. I'll see you later, all right? 01:19:23.133 --> 01:19:26.546 We are powerless oh, god so much panic 01:19:26.637 --> 01:19:27.843 the crowd was manic 01:19:27.930 --> 01:19:30.367 with everybody screaming and shoving and shouting and slapping 01:19:30.391 --> 01:19:33.474 and everyone's frantic! What's happening with you? 01:19:33.560 --> 01:19:35.391 - Usnavi! - Yeah! 01:19:35.479 --> 01:19:37.094 Vanessa! 01:19:37.189 --> 01:19:40.056 - You abandoned me - Yo, what are you talking about? 01:19:40.150 --> 01:19:43.142 Usnavi, all night you barely even danced with me 01:19:43.237 --> 01:19:45.148 don't make me laugh I've been trying all night 01:19:45.239 --> 01:19:47.520 you've been shaking your ass with like half of the heights 01:19:47.574 --> 01:19:48.574 real nice 01:19:48.659 --> 01:19:50.274 you barely gave me a chance all evening 01:19:50.369 --> 01:19:51.779 - what? - Do I get another dance? 01:19:51.870 --> 01:19:55.033 I'm leaving - Vanessa 01:19:55.124 --> 01:19:57.490 I gotta go 01:19:57.584 --> 01:19:59.916 don't walk away from us tonight 01:20:00.004 --> 01:20:03.622 I don't need anything tonight 01:20:03.716 --> 01:20:05.581 I can find my way home 01:20:05.676 --> 01:20:09.339 - keep running away from home - Without you 01:20:09.430 --> 01:20:12.843 without you 01:20:14.435 --> 01:20:19.020 look at the fireworks look at the fireworks fly 01:20:19.106 --> 01:20:22.849 light up the night sky 01:20:24.570 --> 01:20:29.030 look at the fireworks look at the fireworks fly 01:20:29.116 --> 01:20:33.780 light up the night sky 01:20:37.708 --> 01:20:39.494 nagle at Broadway, I got a woman in labor, 01:20:39.585 --> 01:20:42.122 she needs to go to Columbia presbyterian hospital. 01:20:42.671 --> 01:20:45.959 Can you get her there? Thank you and happy birthday. 01:20:49.345 --> 01:20:52.803 Yo, Kevin, I, um... I routed all the incoming calls through my cell 01:20:52.890 --> 01:20:55.176 and I got the generator covering the outgoing. 01:20:59.688 --> 01:21:01.724 You smart. 01:21:01.815 --> 01:21:03.430 - You so smart. - Hi, baby. 01:21:03.525 --> 01:21:05.128 You got here mad quick. What's going on? 01:21:05.152 --> 01:21:06.858 Arroz con pollo. 01:21:06.945 --> 01:21:09.607 - Yeah, long night at the club. - Usnavi, what's wrong? 01:21:09.698 --> 01:21:11.814 - Forget about it. - Have a drink. 01:21:12.868 --> 01:21:14.278 Toast to drama. 01:21:18.540 --> 01:21:20.246 Ay, but you're too comfortable. 01:21:23.253 --> 01:21:26.120 - G-51. - Bingo, mother-lovers! 01:21:28.801 --> 01:21:30.883 Look at the fireworks 01:21:30.969 --> 01:21:33.551 abuela, are you all right? 01:21:33.639 --> 01:21:35.971 Light up the night sky 01:21:36.058 --> 01:21:38.470 the stars are out tonight! 01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:40.551 Look at the fireworks 01:21:40.646 --> 01:21:43.058 you're not alone tonight 01:21:43.148 --> 01:21:45.139 light up the night sky 01:21:45.234 --> 01:21:47.475 you're not alone tonight 01:21:48.737 --> 01:21:51.353 atencion, if you don't have a fare, I want you over on 125th. 01:21:51.448 --> 01:21:53.188 At the synagogue and head up to regiment. 01:21:53.283 --> 01:21:54.614 So if you're crossing the bridge, 01:21:54.701 --> 01:21:56.346 - pick up multiple riders. - Go up to dyckman, then. 01:21:56.370 --> 01:21:57.370 Do what you gotta do. 01:21:58.831 --> 01:22:00.537 I'll get you some water in a minute. 01:22:01.750 --> 01:22:03.866 All right. Put your feet up. 01:22:03.961 --> 01:22:05.917 - That's better. - All right. 01:22:07.047 --> 01:22:09.880 - That's better. - You okay? 01:22:09.967 --> 01:22:12.003 - Yes, thank you. - All right. 01:22:30.279 --> 01:22:32.590 Look at the fireworks look at the fireworks 01:22:32.614 --> 01:22:34.821 look at the fireworks look at the fireworks 01:22:34.908 --> 01:22:37.775 light up the night sky 01:22:37.870 --> 01:22:39.781 in Washington... 01:22:39.872 --> 01:22:43.826 Look at the fireworks 01:22:44.418 --> 01:22:49.704 light up the night sky 01:22:49.798 --> 01:22:52.540 - I'm done. I'm done. - Are we touching each other? 01:23:06.148 --> 01:23:10.437 Calor, calor 01:23:10.527 --> 01:23:13.189 calor 01:23:14.573 --> 01:23:18.441 calor, calor 01:23:18.535 --> 01:23:22.323 calor 01:23:22.915 --> 01:23:24.906 ay, mama 01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:28.492 the summer's hottest day 01:23:28.587 --> 01:23:30.452 paciencia y fe 01:23:31.590 --> 01:23:34.002 paciencia y fe 01:23:35.093 --> 01:23:38.085 it was hotter at home in la vibora 01:23:38.180 --> 01:23:41.092 the Washington heights of Havana 01:23:41.183 --> 01:23:45.472 a crowded city of faces the same as mine 01:23:47.314 --> 01:23:50.477 back as a child in la vibora 01:23:50.567 --> 01:23:53.354 I chased the birds in the Plaza 01:23:53.445 --> 01:23:56.187 praying, mama you would find work 01:23:56.615 --> 01:23:58.901 combing the stars in the sky 01:23:58.992 --> 01:24:02.484 for some sort of sign 01:24:02.579 --> 01:24:04.160 ay, mama 01:24:04.248 --> 01:24:06.910 so many stars in Cuba 01:24:08.585 --> 01:24:13.170 en nueva York we can't see beyond our streetlights! 01:24:14.216 --> 01:24:18.585 To reach the roof you gotta bribe the supa 01:24:19.930 --> 01:24:24.515 ain't no cassiopeia in Washington heights 01:24:24.601 --> 01:24:28.344 but ain't no food en la vibora 01:24:28.438 --> 01:24:31.271 I remember nights anger in the streets 01:24:31.358 --> 01:24:33.815 hunger at the windows 01:24:33.902 --> 01:24:35.483 women folding clothes 01:24:35.571 --> 01:24:39.484 playing with my friends in the summer rain 01:24:39.575 --> 01:24:42.408 mama needs a job mama says we're poor 01:24:42.494 --> 01:24:45.201 one day you say "vamos a nueva York" 01:24:45.289 --> 01:24:48.247 and nueva York was far but nueva York had work 01:24:48.333 --> 01:24:51.791 and so we came 01:24:51.878 --> 01:24:54.711 and now, I'm wide awake 01:24:54.798 --> 01:24:57.505 a million years too late 01:24:57.593 --> 01:25:01.882 I talk to you imagining what you'd do 01:25:01.972 --> 01:25:09.140 remembering what we went through 01:25:09.229 --> 01:25:11.845 inueva York! Jay, mama! 01:25:11.940 --> 01:25:14.852 It wasn't like today you'd say 01:25:14.943 --> 01:25:16.479 paciencia y fe 01:25:16.570 --> 01:25:19.312 - paciencia y fe - Paciencia y fe 01:25:19.406 --> 01:25:22.944 - paciencia y... - Fresh off the boat in America 01:25:23.035 --> 01:25:25.401 freezing in early December 01:25:25.871 --> 01:25:29.455 a crowded city in 1943 01:25:31.668 --> 01:25:34.205 learning the ropes in America 01:25:34.296 --> 01:25:37.254 en espanol, I remember 01:25:37.341 --> 01:25:40.083 dancing with mayor la guardia 01:25:40.177 --> 01:25:44.796 all of society welcoming mami and me 01:25:45.932 --> 01:25:47.718 you better clean this mess 01:25:47.809 --> 01:25:50.346 - paciencia y fe - You better learn inglés 01:25:50.437 --> 01:25:54.476 paciencia y fe you better not be late 01:25:54.566 --> 01:25:56.852 you better pull your weight 01:25:56.943 --> 01:26:01.482 are you better off than you were with the birds of la vibora? 01:26:02.157 --> 01:26:04.990 Sharing double beds trying to catch a break 01:26:05.077 --> 01:26:07.033 struggling with english 01:26:08.121 --> 01:26:12.990 listening to friends finally got a job working as a maid 01:26:13.085 --> 01:26:16.373 so we cleaned some homes polishing with pride 01:26:16.463 --> 01:26:18.954 scrubbing the whole of the Upper East Side 01:26:19.049 --> 01:26:21.961 the days into weeks the weeks into years 01:26:22.052 --> 01:26:25.044 and here I stayed 01:26:25.138 --> 01:26:28.847 paciencia y fe, paciencia y fe paciencia y fe 01:26:28.934 --> 01:26:31.516 and as I feed these birds 01:26:31.603 --> 01:26:33.389 my hands begin to shake 01:26:34.439 --> 01:26:37.146 and as I say these words 01:26:37.234 --> 01:26:39.395 my heart's about to break 01:26:39.486 --> 01:26:41.647 - and Jay, mama! - And Jay, mama! 01:26:41.738 --> 01:26:45.230 What do you do when your dreams come true? 01:26:45.325 --> 01:26:48.032 - And Jay, mama! - I've spent my life 01:26:48.120 --> 01:26:52.238 inheriting dreams from you 01:26:52.332 --> 01:26:56.325 I made it through I survived 01:26:56.420 --> 01:26:57.876 I did it 01:26:59.005 --> 01:27:02.463 now do I leave 01:27:02.551 --> 01:27:05.133 or stay? 01:27:15.605 --> 01:27:17.220 All right, mama 01:27:18.316 --> 01:27:19.726 okay 01:27:20.610 --> 01:27:27.778 paciencia y fe 01:27:27.868 --> 01:27:30.154 calor, calor 01:27:30.746 --> 01:27:35.410 calor 01:27:54.770 --> 01:27:55.930 Abuela. 01:28:00.734 --> 01:28:02.019 Abuela. 01:28:07.449 --> 01:28:09.440 Abuela, abuela. 01:28:12.829 --> 01:28:14.410 Daniela! 01:28:16.208 --> 01:28:17.493 Abuela. 01:28:18.251 --> 01:28:19.366 Daniela! 01:28:19.753 --> 01:28:21.618 Call 911! 01:28:21.713 --> 01:28:24.455 - Okay, okay, okay. - Call 911! 01:28:24.549 --> 01:28:27.837 - Wait, what? - I got you, I got you, I got you... 01:28:27.928 --> 01:28:29.293 - What's going on? - No, no... 01:28:29.387 --> 01:28:30.422 Daniela! 01:28:30.514 --> 01:28:32.450 - What's happening? - Bring her some towels! 01:28:32.474 --> 01:28:33.634 Come here with some towels! 01:28:33.725 --> 01:28:34.805 Okay, okay. 01:28:34.893 --> 01:28:35.912 It's gonna be okay. 01:28:35.936 --> 01:28:37.413 Abuela, it's gonna be okay. I'm right here. 01:28:37.437 --> 01:28:40.554 I'm right here, abuela, I'm right here. I'm right here. 01:28:44.069 --> 01:28:45.900 I'm right here, I'm right here. 01:28:46.571 --> 01:28:47.981 I'm right here, I'm right here. 01:29:28.822 --> 01:29:31.234 She was found and pronounced... 01:29:31.616 --> 01:29:34.824 At the scene she was already lying in bed 01:29:35.412 --> 01:29:38.654 paramedics said that her heart gave out 01:29:39.791 --> 01:29:42.203 I mean that's basically what they said 01:29:42.294 --> 01:29:45.661 they said a combination of the stress and the heat 01:29:45.755 --> 01:29:49.339 why she never took her medicine I'll never understand 01:29:51.052 --> 01:29:53.259 I like to think she went out in peace 01:29:53.346 --> 01:29:56.463 with pieces of bread crumbs in her hand 01:29:57.976 --> 01:30:00.638 abuela Claudia had simple pleasures 01:30:00.729 --> 01:30:03.971 she sang the praises of things we ignore 01:30:04.065 --> 01:30:06.021 glass coke bottles, bread crumbs 01:30:06.109 --> 01:30:07.645 a sky full of stars 01:30:07.736 --> 01:30:09.818 she cherished these things 01:30:09.905 --> 01:30:12.146 she'd say, "alabanza” 01:30:12.240 --> 01:30:15.732 alabanza means to raise this thing to god's face 01:30:15.827 --> 01:30:19.319 and to sing quite literally "praise to this" 01:30:19.414 --> 01:30:22.201 when she was here the path was clear 01:30:22.292 --> 01:30:24.032 she was just here 01:30:26.212 --> 01:30:28.203 she was just here 01:30:33.178 --> 01:30:36.011 alabanza 01:30:37.390 --> 01:30:41.474 alabanza a doa Claudia, senor 01:30:41.561 --> 01:30:44.598 alabanza 01:30:45.565 --> 01:30:48.648 alabanza 01:30:49.694 --> 01:30:52.811 alabanza 01:30:53.907 --> 01:30:57.741 alabanza a doa Claudia, senor 01:30:57.827 --> 01:31:00.785 alabanza 01:31:01.581 --> 01:31:05.494 alabanza - 01:31:05.585 --> 01:31:08.998 alabanza 01:31:09.089 --> 01:31:13.002 alabanza a dofia Claudia, sefior 01:31:13.093 --> 01:31:15.926 alabanza 01:31:16.805 --> 01:31:23.680 alabanza 01:31:24.187 --> 01:31:27.725 alabanza a doa Claudia, senor 01:31:27.816 --> 01:31:30.603 alabanza 01:31:31.611 --> 01:31:38.398 alabanza 01:31:38.493 --> 01:31:42.327 alabanza a doa Claudia, senor 01:31:42.414 --> 01:31:48.617 alabanza 01:31:48.712 --> 01:31:51.954 paciencia y fe - alabanza 01:31:52.048 --> 01:31:55.336 - paciencia y fe - Alabanza a dofia Claudia, sefior 01:31:55.427 --> 01:31:59.796 - paciencia y fe, dora Claudia - Alabanza 01:31:59.889 --> 01:32:07.889 alabanza 01:32:15.780 --> 01:32:19.898 Alabanza 01:32:39.554 --> 01:32:40.919 Should we take a break? 01:32:41.014 --> 01:32:43.346 No, daddy, keep going. 01:33:01.076 --> 01:33:02.612 Hey, pop. 01:33:06.915 --> 01:33:08.997 Best days of my life. 01:33:20.887 --> 01:33:22.627 It's creepy quiet. 01:33:24.182 --> 01:33:26.798 Usually, the one train's up there, screeching. 01:33:35.110 --> 01:33:38.853 Yo, I was thinking... There's so much stuff going on. 01:33:39.906 --> 01:33:41.801 And all it just got me thinking about is, like... 01:33:41.825 --> 01:33:44.157 All the people I care about the most. 01:33:47.080 --> 01:33:49.071 And I just thought about you. 01:33:54.003 --> 01:33:56.164 You're about to change zip codes. 01:33:56.256 --> 01:33:58.212 Country codes, actually. 01:33:58.299 --> 01:34:01.086 Yeah, but that's not till August. 01:34:01.845 --> 01:34:03.756 I mean, you know, we got time. 01:34:04.139 --> 01:34:05.629 Usnavi... 01:34:08.685 --> 01:34:10.641 I'm the girl who paints nails. 01:34:11.354 --> 01:34:14.187 There's plenty like me, here and over there. 01:34:14.274 --> 01:34:16.014 Stop! 01:34:16.526 --> 01:34:18.517 Yo, you're an artist. 01:34:29.831 --> 01:34:32.038 Yo, your senior year lab book... 01:34:35.170 --> 01:34:37.832 I should've been paying attention to the board, but... 01:34:40.383 --> 01:34:42.590 All them doodles you made. 01:34:43.052 --> 01:34:44.883 Yo, it was like... 01:34:44.971 --> 01:34:47.337 Wonder woman meets... 01:34:47.432 --> 01:34:49.798 The Simpsons meets... 01:34:49.893 --> 01:34:51.508 Guernica. 01:34:52.604 --> 01:34:53.764 And I would. 01:34:54.814 --> 01:34:56.725 I would watch, like... 01:34:58.693 --> 01:35:01.435 I just want to see the whole world through her eyes. 01:35:24.677 --> 01:35:27.168 Mira para alla. 01:35:27.263 --> 01:35:30.380 Benny, you know, before I bought rosario's... 01:35:30.892 --> 01:35:32.803 It was o'hanrahan's. 01:35:34.395 --> 01:35:35.976 The whole block was Irish. 01:35:40.526 --> 01:35:41.641 You know why I bought it? 01:35:43.029 --> 01:35:46.772 My dad, he pulled me out of high school, 01:35:46.866 --> 01:35:49.824 so that I could work on the same farm as him. 01:35:50.161 --> 01:35:51.776 Making the same pennies. 01:35:52.705 --> 01:35:55.572 I thought to myself, "no, no, no, papi." 01:35:55.667 --> 01:35:58.249 "That don't make no sense." 01:35:58.336 --> 01:36:01.874 I'm gonna drop out so somebody else could get rich off of my work? 01:36:04.300 --> 01:36:05.881 I came here. 01:36:07.095 --> 01:36:08.960 So I could make my own damn work. 01:36:11.641 --> 01:36:13.757 But, you never finished high school? 01:36:18.856 --> 01:36:20.562 But Nina did. 01:36:40.712 --> 01:36:44.421 You asked me, "what a suenito means?" 01:36:45.508 --> 01:36:48.591 I'm not gonna sit here and give you some fairy tale version. 01:36:49.804 --> 01:36:54.764 You know, a dream isn't some sparkly diamond we get. 01:36:55.852 --> 01:36:58.969 You know, sometimes, it's... it's rough. 01:36:59.814 --> 01:37:01.554 And it's not so pretty. 01:37:01.649 --> 01:37:02.980 Yeah! 01:37:03.067 --> 01:37:04.978 Ivivan los inmigrantes! 01:37:06.154 --> 01:37:10.193 Daca was not a gift from some benevolent Saint, right? 01:37:12.160 --> 01:37:15.118 You made it happen, you fought for it. Yes! 01:37:15.204 --> 01:37:17.411 And that's why it still continues now. 01:37:19.876 --> 01:37:23.835 'Cause what about the people who don't qualify, like my niece, right? 01:37:23.921 --> 01:37:26.958 She gets into college without papers, but... 01:37:27.050 --> 01:37:29.086 No work-study for her. 01:37:29.177 --> 01:37:31.008 No federal aid for her. 01:37:31.095 --> 01:37:34.553 So she doesn't get to go to college. It's not right. 01:37:34.640 --> 01:37:35.971 What did she say? 01:37:36.059 --> 01:37:38.220 She said her niece couldn't go to college. 01:37:38.311 --> 01:37:41.974 We can dream bigger and better, right? 01:37:51.157 --> 01:37:52.442 Yo, Sonny! 01:38:03.461 --> 01:38:05.201 What's going on? 01:38:06.464 --> 01:38:09.001 I et's do this. Yes! 01:38:10.843 --> 01:38:12.333 I knew I couldn't get a license. 01:38:14.389 --> 01:38:15.504 But no college? 01:38:16.474 --> 01:38:18.806 She was talking about undocumented folks. 01:38:32.532 --> 01:38:36.195 I remember when I was your age, they used to say... 01:38:37.286 --> 01:38:41.029 "If you work hard and you live by the rules, 01:38:41.124 --> 01:38:44.207 the money will come, the things will come. 01:38:44.961 --> 01:38:47.373 And that, those things will complete you." 01:38:52.468 --> 01:38:53.924 But, they won't. 01:38:57.890 --> 01:39:03.226 We work so hard to try and get there, that we forget about what's right here. 01:39:04.147 --> 01:39:05.887 I was gonna be like you. 01:39:12.780 --> 01:39:14.645 Share your stories! 01:39:14.740 --> 01:39:17.982 Share your stories. There's nothing to be ashamed of! 01:39:19.871 --> 01:39:21.014 Tell our stories! 01:39:21.038 --> 01:39:26.491 Tell our stories! Tell our stories! 01:39:36.762 --> 01:39:38.002 Dad, I know what I have to do. 01:39:38.556 --> 01:39:42.265 You've given me this amazing education and I just need to use it, 01:39:42.351 --> 01:39:46.219 and figure out how every undocumented kid gets a pathway. 01:39:48.357 --> 01:39:52.020 Maybe Stanford isn't a way out. Maybe it's a way back. 01:39:52.320 --> 01:39:54.777 Like abuela always used to say... 01:39:54.864 --> 01:39:57.321 Asserting our dignity in small ways. 01:40:07.668 --> 01:40:08.953 Wow. 01:40:09.754 --> 01:40:11.210 This is it, huh, mija? 01:40:12.215 --> 01:40:13.250 What? 01:40:13.341 --> 01:40:15.582 This is the moment when you do better than me. 01:40:16.093 --> 01:40:18.175 Not because of some fancy degree... 01:40:19.597 --> 01:40:22.213 It's 'cause you can see a future that I can't. 01:40:23.976 --> 01:40:25.261 Hey... 01:40:28.564 --> 01:40:29.804 Hmm? 01:40:30.149 --> 01:40:32.265 You're nuyoricua. 01:40:32.360 --> 01:40:34.225 We're a people on the move, so yeah... 01:40:34.320 --> 01:40:35.776 Bring us with you. 01:40:38.115 --> 01:40:40.401 Ignore anyone who doubts you. 01:40:42.620 --> 01:40:46.204 You take all the bruises, baby, but you stay in the ring. 01:41:19.782 --> 01:41:22.239 I called, and it's still available. 01:41:22.743 --> 01:41:24.779 But Vanessa needs a co-signer, 01:41:24.870 --> 01:41:26.986 and not one who's about to leave the country. 01:41:28.332 --> 01:41:29.447 Would you? 01:41:31.502 --> 01:41:32.833 As a personal favor? 01:41:33.588 --> 01:41:35.078 We're all ready, ma'am. 01:41:38.384 --> 01:41:40.796 That's seforita to you. 01:41:42.221 --> 01:41:46.089 Yes. Yes, ma'am... senorita. Yes. 01:41:51.272 --> 01:41:54.480 Listas. We'll follow behind. 01:41:56.944 --> 01:42:00.937 - It's hotter in here. - Put on the ac. 01:42:02.074 --> 01:42:03.530 Adios, mi gente! 01:42:04.160 --> 01:42:05.775 Come find me in the Bronx. 01:42:05.870 --> 01:42:09.078 3843 grand concourse. 01:42:12.585 --> 01:42:14.291 Where the hell is everybody? 01:42:19.300 --> 01:42:22.383 Diablo. It's like they've given up. 01:42:57.546 --> 01:42:59.537 Bye, people! 01:42:59.632 --> 01:43:01.122 Bye! 01:43:01.217 --> 01:43:02.423 Carajo. 01:43:02.760 --> 01:43:04.466 Ungrateful! 01:43:05.012 --> 01:43:09.881 Our matriarch bites the dust, and this is how we move on? 01:43:09.975 --> 01:43:13.183 We are not power-less. We are power-full. 01:43:13.270 --> 01:43:16.012 If Claudia was here, she'd say, "p'alante." 01:43:16.399 --> 01:43:21.439 In Puerto Rico, blackouts happen all the time, and we still threw a fiesta. 01:43:26.617 --> 01:43:28.448 This is like gilligan's ghetto island. 01:43:28.536 --> 01:43:30.993 Mi amor, calmate, huh? What would Jesus do? 01:43:33.207 --> 01:43:35.493 Do I look like Jesus to you? 01:43:36.377 --> 01:43:38.257 I mean, sometimes when I squint. “True. 01:43:39.797 --> 01:43:41.708 Hey! 01:43:42.049 --> 01:43:44.210 Hey! 01:43:44.301 --> 01:43:49.091 What's this tonteria that I'm seeing on the street? 01:43:50.015 --> 01:43:53.553 I never thought I'd see the day 01:43:53.644 --> 01:43:56.431 since when are Latin people scared of heat? 01:43:56.731 --> 01:43:58.062 Ahh! 01:43:58.149 --> 01:44:03.018 When I was a little girl growing up in the hills of vega alta 01:44:03.112 --> 01:44:06.570 my favorite time of year was Christmas time 01:44:07.867 --> 01:44:10.358 ask me why - why? 01:44:10.453 --> 01:44:13.195 There wasn't an ounce of show 01:44:13.289 --> 01:44:17.407 but oh, the coquito would flow 01:44:17.501 --> 01:44:23.747 as we sang the aguinaldo the carnaval would begin to grow 01:44:23.841 --> 01:44:29.677 business is closed and we're about to go 01:44:30.097 --> 01:44:32.804 let's have a carnaval 01:44:33.225 --> 01:44:35.807 del barrio 01:44:36.353 --> 01:44:38.139 iwepa! 01:44:40.566 --> 01:44:46.186 Carnaval del barrio 01:44:52.411 --> 01:44:56.745 Carnaval del barrio 01:44:58.167 --> 01:45:02.581 carnaval del barrio 01:45:03.172 --> 01:45:07.085 carnaval del barrio 01:45:07.426 --> 01:45:11.089 we don't need electricidad! Get off your butt, javanza! 01:45:11.597 --> 01:45:15.636 Saca la maraca, bring your tambourine come and join the parranda! 01:45:16.101 --> 01:45:19.559 Carnaval del barrio 01:45:20.189 --> 01:45:23.602 carnaval del barrio 01:45:24.485 --> 01:45:32.485 carnaval del barrio 01:45:33.202 --> 01:45:35.443 me, me, me! Dani I have a question 01:45:35.538 --> 01:45:37.870 I don't know what you're cantando 01:45:37.957 --> 01:45:42.041 just make it up as you go we are improvisando 01:45:42.127 --> 01:45:44.163 lai, le, lo, lai, lo, le, lo, lai 01:45:44.255 --> 01:45:46.041 - you can sing anything - Wait, what? 01:45:46.131 --> 01:45:49.840 Carla, whatever comes into your head just so long as you sing 01:45:49.927 --> 01:45:52.213 uh, my mom is Dominican-Cuban 01:45:52.304 --> 01:45:54.670 my dad is from Chile and PR which means 01:45:54.765 --> 01:45:57.302 I'm Chile-domini-curican... 01:45:57.393 --> 01:45:59.133 But I always say I'm from queens 01:45:59.228 --> 01:46:03.722 - hey! - Carnaval del barrio 01:46:03.816 --> 01:46:08.355 carnaval del barrio 01:46:09.029 --> 01:46:13.113 why is everyone so happy? We're sweating and we have no power 01:46:17.288 --> 01:46:19.449 you can't even go to a club with a friend 01:46:19.540 --> 01:46:21.656 without having somebody shove you 01:46:21.750 --> 01:46:23.615 iay, por favor! 01:46:23.711 --> 01:46:26.248 Vanessa, don't pretend that usnavi's your "friend" 01:46:26.338 --> 01:46:28.499 we all know that he love you 01:46:28.591 --> 01:46:30.582 wow. 01:46:30.968 --> 01:46:35.211 Now that you mention that sexual tension it's easy to see 01:46:35.723 --> 01:46:37.714 - yo, this is bogus - Haven't you noticed 01:46:37.808 --> 01:46:39.890 you get all your coffee for free 01:46:39.977 --> 01:46:44.141 carnaval del barrio 01:46:44.231 --> 01:46:47.223 carnaval del barrio 01:46:47.318 --> 01:46:48.524 here comes usnavi! 01:46:48.611 --> 01:46:50.476 Yo! Yo! Yo, y-y-yo-yo 01:46:50.571 --> 01:46:52.436 now, now, everyone gather round 01:46:52.531 --> 01:46:54.772 sit down, listen I got an announcement 01:46:54.867 --> 01:46:56.653 wow, there's nothing here holding me down 01:46:56.744 --> 01:46:58.905 the word is out tell the whole town I'm bouncin' 01:46:59.204 --> 01:47:02.947 atencion, I'm closin' shop Sonny, grab everybody a soda pop 01:47:03.042 --> 01:47:05.078 twist off the bottle kiss it up to god 01:47:05.169 --> 01:47:07.455 I miss abuela Claudia it's time to fly, though 01:47:07.546 --> 01:47:09.377 Daniela, Carla, pack up the carro 01:47:09.465 --> 01:47:11.626 I'm booking a flight for dr tomorrow! 01:47:11.717 --> 01:47:13.753 Oh, my god! 01:47:13.844 --> 01:47:17.712 Alza la bandera la bandera dominicana 01:47:17.806 --> 01:47:22.015 alza la bandera la bandera puertorriquefia 01:47:22.102 --> 01:47:26.186 alza la bandera la bandera mexicana 01:47:26.273 --> 01:47:30.186 alza la bandera la bandera cubana 01:47:30.277 --> 01:47:32.359 - jp'arriba esa bandera! - Hey! 01:47:32.446 --> 01:47:34.402 - Jalzala donde quiera! - Hey! 01:47:34.490 --> 01:47:36.401 Recuerdo de mi tierra 01:47:36.492 --> 01:47:38.608 me acuerdo de mi tierra 01:47:38.702 --> 01:47:40.567 - jesa bonita bandera! - Hey! 01:47:40.663 --> 01:47:43.120 - Jcontiene mi Alma enteral! - Hey! 01:47:43.207 --> 01:47:45.198 Y cuando yo me muera 01:47:45.292 --> 01:47:50.207 entiérrame en mi tierra 01:47:55.719 --> 01:47:57.300 Hey! 01:47:59.807 --> 01:48:02.014 Ooh! Whoo! 01:48:04.144 --> 01:48:07.978 Hey, Mr. Benny have you seen any horses today? 01:48:08.482 --> 01:48:09.482 What do you mean? 01:48:09.525 --> 01:48:12.107 I heard you and Nina went for a roll in the hay! 01:48:12.194 --> 01:48:14.025 Hey! Ohhhhhhh 01:48:14.113 --> 01:48:18.106 - Benny and Nina, sitting in a tree - That's not true. 01:48:18.200 --> 01:48:22.318 - K-1-s-s-i-n-g - It's your fault. 01:48:22.413 --> 01:48:26.656 Qué bochinche Nina and Benny 01:48:26.750 --> 01:48:30.709 k-1-s-s-i-n-g - okay, okay. 01:48:30.796 --> 01:48:32.661 Hold up, wait a minute 01:48:32.756 --> 01:48:35.714 usnavi's leavin' us for the Dominican Republic 01:48:35.801 --> 01:48:37.946 and Benny went and stole the girl that I'm in love with 01:48:37.970 --> 01:48:39.426 she was my babysitter first! 01:48:39.513 --> 01:48:41.219 Listen up, is this what y'all want? 01:48:41.306 --> 01:48:43.467 We close the bodega the neighborhood is gone 01:48:43.559 --> 01:48:45.578 they selling the dispatch and they closin' the salon 01:48:45.602 --> 01:48:47.402 and they'll never turn the lights back on 'cuz 01:48:47.438 --> 01:48:51.556 we are powerless we are powerless 01:48:51.650 --> 01:48:53.811 and y'all keep dancin' and singin' and celebratin' 01:48:53.902 --> 01:48:56.018 and it's gettin' late and this place disintegratin' 01:48:56.113 --> 01:49:00.356 we are powerless we are powerless 01:49:00.451 --> 01:49:02.442 all right, we're powerless so light up a candle 01:49:02.536 --> 01:49:04.652 there's nothing going on here that we can't handle! 01:49:04.747 --> 01:49:07.033 Maybe you're right, Sonny call in the coroners 01:49:07.124 --> 01:49:09.456 maybe we're powerless a corner full of foreigners 01:49:09.543 --> 01:49:11.784 maybe this neighborhood's changing forever 01:49:11.879 --> 01:49:13.915 maybe tonight is our last night together 01:49:14.006 --> 01:49:16.292 however how do you want to face it? 01:49:16.383 --> 01:49:17.418 Do you wanna waste it 01:49:17.509 --> 01:49:19.625 when the end is so close you can taste jt? 01:49:19.720 --> 01:49:21.360 Y'all could cry with your head in the sand 01:49:21.430 --> 01:49:23.842 I'MMA fly this flag that I got in my hand 01:49:23.932 --> 01:49:25.888 - jp'arriba esa bandera! - Hey! 01:49:25.976 --> 01:49:28.308 - Jalzala donde quiera! - Hey! 01:49:28.395 --> 01:49:30.135 Can we raise our voice tonight? 01:49:30.230 --> 01:49:32.516 - Can we make a little noise tonight? - Hey! 01:49:32.608 --> 01:49:36.271 Esa bonita bandera contiene mi Alma entera 01:49:36.653 --> 01:49:38.985 in fact can we sing so loud and raucous 01:49:39.073 --> 01:49:41.405 they can hear us across the bridge in east secaucus? 01:49:41.492 --> 01:49:42.982 P'arriba esa bandera 01:49:43.327 --> 01:49:44.908 alzala donde quiera 01:49:44.995 --> 01:49:47.077 from Puerto Rico to Santo Domingo 01:49:47.164 --> 01:49:50.031 wherever we go we rep our people and the beat go 01:49:50.125 --> 01:49:52.081 esa bonita bandera 01:49:52.169 --> 01:49:53.659 contiene mi Alma entera 01:49:54.296 --> 01:49:56.378 Vanessa, forget about what coulda been 01:49:56.465 --> 01:49:58.626 dance with me one last night in the hood again 01:49:59.093 --> 01:50:00.583 jwepa! 01:50:00.677 --> 01:50:04.386 Carnaval del barrio 01:50:04.807 --> 01:50:07.890 carnaval del barrio 01:50:07.976 --> 01:50:09.162 p'arriba esa bandera 01:50:09.186 --> 01:50:12.053 carnaval del barrio 01:50:12.147 --> 01:50:13.432 y cuando yo me muera 01:50:13.524 --> 01:50:15.856 - carnaval del barrio - Entiérrame en mi tierra 01:50:15.943 --> 01:50:18.730 del barrio “alza la bandera 01:50:18.821 --> 01:50:21.028 la bandera dominicana 01:50:21.115 --> 01:50:23.356 alza la bandera “alza la bandera 01:50:23.450 --> 01:50:25.111 la bandera puertorriquefia 01:50:25.953 --> 01:50:29.741 - alza la bandera, la bandera mexicana - Iadiés, adios, adiés! 01:50:29.832 --> 01:50:32.289 Alza la bandera la bandera 01:50:32.376 --> 01:50:36.119 la bandera, la bandera, la bandera 01:50:36.213 --> 01:50:39.125 jalza la bandera, hey! 01:51:01.238 --> 01:51:04.571 We love you! We love you! Bye! 01:51:14.877 --> 01:51:17.209 All right. Watch your hand, move... You push. 01:51:17.296 --> 01:51:19.696 - Okay, okay, okay... got it... - There you go. There you go. 01:51:19.756 --> 01:51:21.496 - My finger! - Oh, my gosh. Yo. 01:51:21.592 --> 01:51:24.299 Listen, I got this. Just push. Just push down. 01:51:26.138 --> 01:51:28.345 Oh, my gosh. 01:51:29.850 --> 01:51:31.306 Whoo! 01:51:32.603 --> 01:51:35.345 Oh, my gosh. You're only gone to Thanksgiving. 01:51:51.288 --> 01:51:52.288 Nina. 01:51:53.081 --> 01:51:54.491 Shh. 01:51:55.250 --> 01:51:57.491 Let me just listen to my block. 01:52:03.717 --> 01:52:05.753 Sunset looked better in the blackout. 01:52:10.057 --> 01:52:12.514 Well, how about... 01:52:13.810 --> 01:52:15.892 We pretend we're still in it? 01:52:18.148 --> 01:52:20.104 I like that. Yeah? 01:52:21.401 --> 01:52:22.982 Early July... 01:52:23.070 --> 01:52:26.403 The whole summer is ahead of us. 01:52:29.493 --> 01:52:32.200 When the sun goes down 01:52:32.871 --> 01:52:35.328 you're gonna need a flashlight 01:52:36.166 --> 01:52:38.452 you're gonna need a candle 01:52:38.543 --> 01:52:41.034 I think I can handle that 01:52:42.506 --> 01:52:45.122 when you leave town 01:52:45.217 --> 01:52:48.254 I'm gonna buy you a calling card 01:52:50.389 --> 01:52:53.256 - 'cuz I'm falling hard for you - For you 01:52:56.061 --> 01:52:58.803 I go back on labor day 01:52:58.897 --> 01:53:02.105 and I will try to make my way 01:53:02.192 --> 01:53:06.356 out west to California 01:53:07.531 --> 01:53:09.487 so we've got the summer 01:53:10.784 --> 01:53:13.196 and we've got each other 01:53:14.079 --> 01:53:17.663 perhaps even longer 01:53:18.292 --> 01:53:21.204 when you're on your own 01:53:21.878 --> 01:53:24.540 and suddenly without me 01:53:25.007 --> 01:53:27.339 will you forget about me? 01:53:27.426 --> 01:53:30.839 I couldn't if I tried 01:53:30.929 --> 01:53:33.966 when I'm all alone 01:53:34.057 --> 01:53:37.845 and I close my eyes 01:53:39.062 --> 01:53:42.646 that's when I'll see your face again 01:53:44.026 --> 01:53:47.644 and when you're gone 01:53:47.738 --> 01:53:50.480 you know that I'll be waiting 01:53:50.574 --> 01:53:53.156 when you're gone 01:53:53.243 --> 01:53:56.610 but you're here with me 01:53:56.705 --> 01:53:59.492 - right now - We'll be working hard 01:53:59.583 --> 01:54:02.791 but if we should drift apart 01:54:02.878 --> 01:54:06.211 - Benny - Let me take this moment 01:54:06.298 --> 01:54:08.880 just to say - no, no 01:54:09.259 --> 01:54:12.376 you are gonna change the world some day 01:54:12.471 --> 01:54:14.928 I'll be thinking of home 01:54:15.015 --> 01:54:20.180 and I'll think of you every night 01:54:20.270 --> 01:54:27.858 at the same time 01:54:59.142 --> 01:55:01.724 When the sun goes down 01:55:02.270 --> 01:55:08.891 when the sun goes down 01:55:26.878 --> 01:55:29.585 Nina didn't even let them drive her to the airport. 01:55:30.549 --> 01:55:32.756 She had to take that step on her own. 01:55:34.511 --> 01:55:37.344 An independent, stubborn lady. 01:55:37.431 --> 01:55:39.217 Like you, hija. 01:55:39.307 --> 01:55:41.844 And that's good. 01:56:46.333 --> 01:56:47.539 What? 01:56:48.043 --> 01:56:49.749 No, you didn't! 01:56:51.046 --> 01:56:53.253 No, you didn't! 01:56:53.340 --> 01:56:55.422 No, you did not! 01:56:55.717 --> 01:56:57.958 Yo, you playing tricks on me! 01:56:58.428 --> 01:57:01.170 Yo, you playing tricks on me, man! 01:57:01.264 --> 01:57:02.879 Yo, abuela... 01:57:10.357 --> 01:57:13.269 Hello? Yes, what time do you close? 01:57:13.735 --> 01:57:15.225 Word! Yes! 01:57:15.862 --> 01:57:18.319 Okay, thank you so much. Thank you, bye. 01:57:18.740 --> 01:57:19.900 Whoa! 01:57:19.991 --> 01:57:21.151 Hi! 01:57:21.243 --> 01:57:22.723 Were you just standing there, just... 01:57:24.329 --> 01:57:26.695 I... I heard you fly out tomorrow. 01:57:27.707 --> 01:57:28.787 Yeah 01:57:30.710 --> 01:57:32.746 - come in, come in, come in. - Thanks. 01:57:32.837 --> 01:57:34.122 Yeah 01:57:38.760 --> 01:57:40.876 so how's the new spot? 01:57:40.971 --> 01:57:42.051 It's great. 01:57:45.058 --> 01:57:46.673 My fingers won't budge. 01:57:46.768 --> 01:57:49.475 I haven't sewn a single thing since I moved. 01:57:50.230 --> 01:57:52.391 You will. Yeah. 01:57:52.482 --> 01:57:55.724 Just... waiting for inspiration to strike, I guess. 01:57:56.319 --> 01:57:59.561 Well, you're pretty creative and artistic, I mean... 01:58:00.323 --> 01:58:02.564 So... it's gonna hit you, I think. 01:58:08.582 --> 01:58:10.118 So... 01:58:11.835 --> 01:58:13.700 I got you a present 01:58:14.671 --> 01:58:16.707 I went next door to get it 01:58:17.674 --> 01:58:20.336 doing anything tonight? 01:58:20.427 --> 01:58:22.759 - Cleaning - You're done for the day 01:58:22.846 --> 01:58:25.462 no way - 'cuz we got a date 01:58:25.557 --> 01:58:27.013 okay 01:58:27.100 --> 01:58:30.263 before you board that plane 01:58:31.354 --> 01:58:35.017 I owe you a bottle of cold champagne 01:58:35.108 --> 01:58:39.351 no - yeah, cold champagne 01:58:39.446 --> 01:58:41.983 damn, the bottle's all sweaty and everything 01:58:42.073 --> 01:58:43.563 you went and got this 01:58:43.658 --> 01:58:46.650 - pop the champagne - I don't know if we have coffee cups 01:58:46.745 --> 01:58:49.407 or plastic cups I already packed the cups 01:58:49.497 --> 01:58:53.740 tonight we're drinking straight from the bottle 01:58:54.711 --> 01:58:56.702 usnavi - yeah 01:58:56.796 --> 01:58:59.663 Daniela told me what you did for me 01:58:59.758 --> 01:59:04.923 and it's honestly the sweetest thing anyone ever did for me 01:59:05.013 --> 01:59:12.101 now, what can I say or do to possibly repay you for your kindness? 01:59:12.187 --> 01:59:14.769 How do you get this gold shit off? 01:59:15.607 --> 01:59:18.269 Usnavi - yeah 01:59:18.360 --> 01:59:20.851 before you go leave town 01:59:20.945 --> 01:59:25.735 before the corner changes and the signs are taken down 01:59:25.825 --> 01:59:31.070 let's walk around the neighborhood and say our goodbyes 01:59:31.164 --> 01:59:34.247 - usnavi, are you all right? - I'm fine 01:59:34.334 --> 01:59:37.121 I'm trying to open this champagne 01:59:37.212 --> 01:59:39.498 you see the twisty thing is broken 01:59:39.589 --> 01:59:42.422 but I'm gonna open this damn champagne 01:59:42.509 --> 01:59:44.545 let me see it - no, I got it 01:59:44.636 --> 01:59:47.423 yo, usnavi, drop the champagne 01:59:47.514 --> 01:59:50.256 I mean you went to all this trouble to get us a little bubbly 01:59:50.350 --> 01:59:52.591 and it's gonna be okay 01:59:53.061 --> 01:59:55.473 I'm sorry, it's been a long day 02:00:01.319 --> 02:00:04.061 You oughta stay - what? 02:00:04.155 --> 02:00:07.898 You could stay uptown maybe save this place 02:00:08.910 --> 02:00:10.616 ha, ha, very funny 02:00:10.704 --> 02:00:13.491 and it's not like Sonny's got role models 02:00:15.834 --> 02:00:18.450 - yo, what are you talking about? - I'm just saying 02:00:18.545 --> 02:00:20.331 I think your vacation can wait 02:00:20.422 --> 02:00:22.754 vacation? Vanessa, you left us too 02:00:22.841 --> 02:00:25.127 and I moved down to west fourth street 02:00:25.218 --> 02:00:27.834 - you can take the a - What are you trying to say? 02:00:27.929 --> 02:00:29.794 You're leaving the country 02:00:29.889 --> 02:00:32.535 - and we're never gonna see you again - So what are you trying to say? 02:00:32.559 --> 02:00:35.676 You get everyone addicted to your coffee and off you go 02:00:35.770 --> 02:00:39.433 Vanessa, I don't know why you're mad at me 02:00:39.524 --> 02:00:41.480 I wish I was mad 02:01:02.255 --> 02:01:04.997 I'm just too late 02:01:25.028 --> 02:01:27.235 How long does this process take? 02:01:27.322 --> 02:01:30.280 Well, from the original application to court, 02:01:30.366 --> 02:01:34.826 appearances, appeals, to a final decision.. 02:01:35.914 --> 02:01:37.870 Could be five months. 02:01:37.957 --> 02:01:39.538 Or five years. 02:01:39.626 --> 02:01:41.617 - Five years? - Yeah. 02:01:42.420 --> 02:01:46.789 For a green card or a rejection. 02:01:46.883 --> 02:01:50.125 See, the courts work at their own speed. 02:01:53.556 --> 02:01:55.421 Then we start today. 02:02:00.897 --> 02:02:02.933 This is worth 96,000. 02:02:03.024 --> 02:02:05.231 How much fight does this buy us? 02:02:05.985 --> 02:02:09.819 I want to pay for your fee, and the rest put in a trust for Sonny. 02:02:13.827 --> 02:02:14.987 - Dude. - It don't matter. 02:02:15.078 --> 02:02:16.739 Holy shit, that's a lot of money. 02:02:16.830 --> 02:02:19.446 - Watch your mouth, bro. - When did you get that? 02:02:19.541 --> 02:02:21.227 What you mean, when did I get it? Don't worry about when I got it. 02:02:21.251 --> 02:02:22.741 Why you always asking questions? 02:02:24.128 --> 02:02:26.835 You know, payment in checks is more common. 02:02:27.674 --> 02:02:29.539 I leave on the first flight in the morning. 02:02:29.634 --> 02:02:31.295 I don't have time to cash in now. 02:02:32.804 --> 02:02:34.715 I wish I did, but I like... 02:02:35.390 --> 02:02:36.550 Please. 02:02:40.603 --> 02:02:41.968 All right. 02:02:43.398 --> 02:02:44.808 Bueno, mijo... 02:02:45.692 --> 02:02:48.024 This is gonna be an emotional rollercoaster. 02:02:48.903 --> 02:02:50.768 It may end in heartbreak. 02:02:51.406 --> 02:02:54.523 But, there's a chance, right? Yeah. 02:02:54.617 --> 02:02:58.451 But it's my responsibility to make sure that he knows... 02:02:59.664 --> 02:03:02.121 The odds are against you. 02:03:15.930 --> 02:03:17.386 Understood. 02:03:28.109 --> 02:03:29.394 I still want to fight, though. 02:03:32.530 --> 02:03:33.895 Okay. 02:03:54.469 --> 02:03:55.709 Pete! 02:03:57.555 --> 02:03:58.886 Seriously? 02:03:59.390 --> 02:04:01.676 My bad. Use one of those rags. 02:04:14.697 --> 02:04:15.697 Hey... 02:04:19.410 --> 02:04:20.820 How much for this? 02:04:20.912 --> 02:04:23.153 Free. I got tons like that. 02:04:39.931 --> 02:04:41.467 You hear that? 02:04:43.851 --> 02:04:45.933 The voices of the gods. 02:04:49.065 --> 02:04:52.432 My last morning... The one train... 02:04:52.527 --> 02:04:54.984 Sounded like Juan Luis guerra. 02:04:55.071 --> 02:04:59.030 And the garbage trucks smelled like island flowers. 02:05:07.834 --> 02:05:09.916 Best days of my life. 02:05:10.420 --> 02:05:11.830 Here I come. 02:05:25.893 --> 02:05:30.853 No te vayas 02:05:31.607 --> 02:05:36.897 si me dejas 02:05:37.363 --> 02:05:42.403 si te alejas 02:05:42.702 --> 02:05:44.613 de mi 02:05:45.580 --> 02:05:48.322 sequiras en mis recuerdos 02:05:48.416 --> 02:05:49.906 para siempre... 02:05:50.001 --> 02:05:52.663 Para siempre... para siempre... 02:05:52.754 --> 02:05:54.119 Para siem... para siem... 02:05:54.213 --> 02:05:56.169 - Para siempre - Lights out on Washington heights 02:05:56.257 --> 02:05:57.484 and now the crack of dawn 02:05:57.508 --> 02:06:00.545 I pack as life goes on and on and on 02:06:00.636 --> 02:06:02.718 time to go, but I'm doing the math 02:06:02.805 --> 02:06:06.093 on this cash money to have Sonny stay on his path 02:06:06.184 --> 02:06:09.768 abuela really wanted me up on a beach with margaritas in my reach 02:06:09.854 --> 02:06:12.186 and soon that's how it's gonna be 02:06:12.273 --> 02:06:14.309 and look at me, leavin' today 02:06:14.400 --> 02:06:17.858 on a seven-forty-seven boardin' jfk 02:06:17.945 --> 02:06:20.231 the hydrants are open 02:06:20.656 --> 02:06:28.656 cool breezes blow 02:06:29.540 --> 02:06:31.701 the hydrants are open 02:06:31.793 --> 02:06:39.793 cool breezes blow 02:06:40.051 --> 02:06:43.168 - good morning - Piragua, piragua 02:06:43.262 --> 02:06:46.095 - cool breezes - New block of ice, piragua 02:06:46.182 --> 02:06:48.719 - blow - So sweet and nice, piragua 02:06:48.810 --> 02:06:51.426 piragua, piragua 02:06:51.521 --> 02:06:54.513 - the hydrants are open - Piragua, piragua 02:06:54.607 --> 02:06:57.565 - cool breezes - New block of ice, piragua 02:06:57.652 --> 02:07:00.018 - blow - So sweet and nice, piragua 02:07:00.113 --> 02:07:03.196 piragua, piragua 02:07:03.282 --> 02:07:06.024 - siempre - The hydrants are open 02:07:06.119 --> 02:07:08.531 - cool breezes - New block of ice, piragua 02:07:08.621 --> 02:07:10.157 - blow - So sweet and nice, piragua 02:07:10.248 --> 02:07:14.491 it won't be long now 02:07:14.585 --> 02:07:17.748 there's a breeze off the Hudson and just when 02:07:17.839 --> 02:07:21.047 you think you're sick of living here the memory floods in 02:07:21.134 --> 02:07:23.466 the morning light off the fire escapes 02:07:23.553 --> 02:07:26.511 the nights in Bennett park blasting big pun tapes 02:07:26.597 --> 02:07:29.589 I'MMA miss this place to tell you the truth 02:07:29.684 --> 02:07:32.426 Kevin dispensin' wisdom from his dispatch booth 02:07:32.520 --> 02:07:35.057 and at dawn Vanessa at the salon 02:07:35.148 --> 02:07:38.686 we gotta move on but who's gonna notice we're gone? 02:07:38.776 --> 02:07:39.920 When our job's done 02:07:39.944 --> 02:07:42.856 as the evening winds down to a crawl, son 02:07:42.947 --> 02:07:45.654 can I ease my mind when we're all done? 02:07:45.741 --> 02:07:48.528 When we've resigned in the long run 02:07:48.619 --> 02:07:50.234 what do we leave behind? 02:07:50.329 --> 02:07:52.911 Most of all I'll miss abuela's whispers 02:07:52.999 --> 02:07:56.366 doin' the lotto pick six every Christmas 02:07:56.460 --> 02:07:59.577 in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters 02:08:00.173 --> 02:08:03.381 who's gonna miss this raggedy little business? 02:08:10.558 --> 02:08:12.094 Hey, you. 02:08:13.311 --> 02:08:14.311 Hey. 02:08:15.021 --> 02:08:16.386 Do you have two minutes? 02:08:20.526 --> 02:08:22.886 You said you wanted to see the world through my eyes, right? 02:08:24.238 --> 02:08:26.695 - Yeah. - Come with me. 02:08:29.702 --> 02:08:31.238 - No peeking. - All right. 02:08:31.329 --> 02:08:32.990 - Okay. - All right. 02:08:33.080 --> 02:08:34.160 Watch it. 02:08:35.041 --> 02:08:36.577 Where am I going? 02:08:36.667 --> 02:08:38.373 Just stand right here. Where? 02:08:38.461 --> 02:08:40.292 - No peeking. - I'm not... 02:08:40.379 --> 02:08:42.335 I can feel you trying to open your eyes, okay? 02:08:42.423 --> 02:08:44.254 - I'm not trying... - Just don't. 02:08:45.009 --> 02:08:46.499 Hold on. 02:08:48.387 --> 02:08:49.968 Okay, open. 02:09:01.400 --> 02:09:04.733 After I left your place last night, I just... 02:09:05.738 --> 02:09:08.480 Walked around for a while. 02:09:09.242 --> 02:09:11.073 And then I ran into Pete. 02:09:11.702 --> 02:09:14.364 And I saw one of his dropcloths, and... 02:09:16.374 --> 02:09:18.990 I thought that this is my next piece. 02:09:20.503 --> 02:09:23.040 So I called Sonny and I told him to open up the bodega, 02:09:23.130 --> 02:09:25.246 'cause my fingers needed to move. 02:09:37.270 --> 02:09:40.762 She started working and was like, "I need more dropcloths." 02:09:40.856 --> 02:09:42.141 So I started painting. 02:09:59.250 --> 02:10:00.911 Yo, how did you... 02:10:03.713 --> 02:10:04.998 That's my dad's beach. 02:10:05.715 --> 02:10:09.674 Yeah. You had all those photos by the register. 02:10:09.760 --> 02:10:11.500 I worked from memory. 02:10:13.723 --> 02:10:16.465 Um... I did the crab in the corner. 02:10:16.559 --> 02:10:19.175 What's so funny? 02:10:19.270 --> 02:10:20.872 Who cares about the crab in the corner? 02:10:20.896 --> 02:10:22.457 What you mean, the crab is like the best part. 02:10:22.481 --> 02:10:24.642 No, it is not. It's in the corner for a reason. 02:10:24.734 --> 02:10:26.894 So what, are you saying you don't like my crab? 02:10:26.944 --> 02:10:28.422 I may be saying a lot of things, 02:10:28.446 --> 02:10:30.257 that just looks like a fourth-grader drew that. 02:10:30.281 --> 02:10:32.647 - You could sell that. - No, I cannot. For how much? 02:10:32.742 --> 02:10:34.845 - Twenty-five cents? - No, I think a couple of grand. 02:10:34.869 --> 02:10:35.608 What? 02:10:35.703 --> 02:10:38.820 - Yeah. - I'm saying... just... shh! 02:10:47.089 --> 02:10:48.670 - He hates it. - Shh. 02:10:49.508 --> 02:10:52.090 He's forming an artistic opinion. 02:11:04.065 --> 02:11:05.425 You did this last night? 02:11:06.859 --> 02:11:07.939 Yeah 02:11:10.863 --> 02:11:12.023 there goes my flight 02:11:12.698 --> 02:11:13.437 what? 02:11:13.699 --> 02:11:15.860 Graffiti Pete you're gonna need some new cans 02:11:15.951 --> 02:11:17.236 here's some money, finish up 02:11:17.328 --> 02:11:19.168 - there's been a slight change of plans - Nice. 02:11:19.205 --> 02:11:21.867 Listen up guys, you got a job I'm not playin' 02:11:21.957 --> 02:11:24.664 you gotta go now tell the whole block I'm stayin' 02:11:24.752 --> 02:11:27.494 so go ahead, tell everyone we know Sonny... 02:11:28.964 --> 02:11:29.964 All right, go 02:11:30.007 --> 02:11:32.623 yo! Usnavi's stayin'! 02:11:32.718 --> 02:11:34.959 Yeah, I'm a streetlight chillin' in the heat 02:11:35.054 --> 02:11:37.761 I illuminate the stories of the people in the street 02:11:37.848 --> 02:11:40.385 some have happy endings some are bittersweet 02:11:40.476 --> 02:11:42.933 but I know them all and that's what makes my life complete 02:11:43.020 --> 02:11:44.180 - yeah! - And if not me 02:11:44.271 --> 02:11:45.727 who keeps our legacies? 02:11:45.815 --> 02:11:48.397 Who's gonna keep the coffee sweet with secret recipes? 02:11:48.484 --> 02:11:50.725 Abuela, rest in peace you live in my memories 02:11:50.820 --> 02:11:53.402 but Sonny's gotta eat this corner is my destiny 02:11:53.489 --> 02:11:56.526 brings out the best in me we pass a test and we keep pressin' 02:11:56.617 --> 02:11:58.733 and yes indeed you know I'll never leave 02:11:58.828 --> 02:12:00.910 if you close your eyes that hydrant is a beach 02:12:00.996 --> 02:12:02.236 that siren is a breeze 02:12:02.331 --> 02:12:04.697 that fire escape's a leaf on a palm tree 02:12:05.251 --> 02:12:09.039 abuela, I'm sorry but I ain't goin' back because I'm telling your story 02:12:09.130 --> 02:12:11.963 and I can say goodbye to you smilin' I found my island 02:12:12.216 --> 02:12:15.208 I been on it this whole time I'm home 02:12:27.773 --> 02:12:29.263 Until then... 02:12:30.067 --> 02:12:31.648 I thought it was past tense. 02:12:32.278 --> 02:12:33.313 What? 02:12:33.946 --> 02:12:35.652 The best days of my life. 02:12:37.616 --> 02:12:39.026 So I stayed. 02:12:39.118 --> 02:12:41.780 And I built my little dream, my suéiito, 02:12:41.871 --> 02:12:44.954 here, in Washington heights. 02:12:45.040 --> 02:12:47.156 Say it, so it doesn't disappear. 02:12:47.251 --> 02:12:50.038 Washington heights! 02:12:50.129 --> 02:12:53.166 Because this place... this is it. 02:12:54.049 --> 02:12:57.257 You... you, nena. 02:12:58.888 --> 02:13:00.298 You're it. 02:13:02.600 --> 02:13:04.215 Para siempre... 02:13:04.310 --> 02:13:05.925 I have a date tonight. 02:13:06.020 --> 02:13:07.135 I take note. 02:13:07.229 --> 02:13:08.765 But, there's a chance, right? 02:13:08.856 --> 02:13:10.062 We sold... a winner! 02:13:10.733 --> 02:13:12.724 Start small, dream big. 02:13:12.818 --> 02:13:14.274 Little details... 02:13:14.862 --> 02:13:17.194 That tell the world we are hot invisible. 02:13:19.450 --> 02:13:21.406 Can we go to the water now? 02:13:21.494 --> 02:13:23.359 Man, you've been talking forever. 02:13:23.454 --> 02:13:25.035 Yeah, come on, Iris. 02:13:25.664 --> 02:13:27.780 Please, daddy? Can I go, too? 02:13:30.669 --> 02:13:32.159 Ask your mother. 02:13:34.965 --> 02:13:36.626 Mami, can I? 02:13:37.176 --> 02:13:39.212 Please? 02:13:39.803 --> 02:13:41.668 Yes, mi vida, qo. 02:13:41.764 --> 02:13:42.799 Yes! 02:13:42.890 --> 02:13:44.175 Love you, daddy. 02:13:48.729 --> 02:13:50.765 The hydrants are open 02:13:50.856 --> 02:13:57.694 cool breezes blow 02:13:57.780 --> 02:14:01.022 - we're home - The hydrants are open 02:14:01.116 --> 02:14:04.108 cool breezes blow 02:14:04.203 --> 02:14:06.489 it's a wonderful life that I've known 02:14:06.580 --> 02:14:08.616 merry Christmas you ol' building and loan! 02:14:08.707 --> 02:14:11.289 I'm home - the hydrants are open 02:14:11.377 --> 02:14:14.540 cool breezes blow 02:14:14.630 --> 02:14:16.942 abuela that ain't a stoop that's your throne 02:14:16.966 --> 02:14:20.379 long after your birds have all flown I'm home 02:14:20.469 --> 02:14:22.835 where the coffee's non-stop and I drop this hip-hop 02:14:22.930 --> 02:14:25.763 in my mom and pop shop I'm home 02:14:25.849 --> 02:14:27.089 where people come, people go 02:14:27.184 --> 02:14:28.890 let me show all of these people what I know 02:14:28.978 --> 02:14:30.809 there's no place like home 02:14:30.896 --> 02:14:32.432 and let me set the record straight 02:14:32.523 --> 02:14:35.105 I'm steppin' to Vanessa I'm gettin' a second date 02:14:35.192 --> 02:14:36.307 I'm home 02:14:36.402 --> 02:14:37.858 where it's a hundred in the shade 02:14:37.945 --> 02:14:40.357 but with Patience and faith we remain unafraid 02:14:40.447 --> 02:14:41.687 I'm home 02:14:41.782 --> 02:14:43.272 you hear that music in the air? 02:14:43.367 --> 02:14:46.279 Take the train to the top of the world and I'm there 02:14:46.370 --> 02:14:48.406 I'm home! 02:21:49.251 --> 02:21:52.584 It's hotter than the islands are today 02:21:54.840 --> 02:21:57.798 and mister softee's truck has broken down 02:21:57.884 --> 02:21:59.795 send somebody over here. I don't... 02:21:59.886 --> 02:22:05.381 And here come all his customers my way 02:22:05.475 --> 02:22:08.137 I told you, I run this town 02:22:08.228 --> 02:22:10.435 piragua, piragua 02:22:10.522 --> 02:22:13.605 - ain't that some shit. - One twenty-five, piragua 02:22:13.692 --> 02:22:16.104 piragua, piragua 02:22:16.570 --> 02:22:19.186 two twenty-five, piragua 02:22:19.281 --> 02:22:22.023 new block of ice hike up the price 02:22:22.117 --> 02:22:24.403 lai, lo, le, lo, lai! Lai, lo, le, lo, lai! 02:22:24.494 --> 02:22:27.577 Blackouts on ice blackouts are nice 02:22:27.664 --> 02:22:33.034 lo, le, lo, lai! Keep scraping by 02:22:33.128 --> 02:22:34.709 ipiragua! 02:22:34.733 --> 02:22:54.733 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.