Luisa is a middle school teacher. Always committed to helping the neediest pupils, the woman discovers that one of her former pupils, the son of a neighborhood boss, has been arrested for robbery and decides to help his family, and when she learns that the boy will pay the rest sentence under house arrest decides to give him tutoring so that he can graduate in the hope of taking him off the street and giving him a future. But the task turns out to be more difficult than expected due to the indomitable character of the young man and his dangerous friendships.