Some Kind of Connection

Vivian Restrepo-Zamora is a twenty-something year old Canadian university student of Guatemalan and Chilean descent. Despite her very clear-cut Latin American background, she has had a rather un-Latina upbringing. Having lived most of her life in majority-white suburban neighbourhoods where communities of colour are a dime a dozen, and in a country where the Latinx population is not as prominent as in the States, Vivian has had little opportunity to explore her cultural background.

When she is accepted into the psychology program and subsequently joins the school's Latin American students club, she becomes more exposed to "the scene" both in university and in the nightlife of Toronto's diverse streets, Vivian begins to feel the spark of connection she longed for. However, when things take a turn for the worse at the club and is forced to start over, she realizes that there is more to being Latina than just "living the life".