Love Down The Boulevard

Lala Ruiz is born and raised in a tight nit traditional Mexican family straight from East Los Angeles. Unlike her other peers, she didn’t fall to the ways of the streets. She stayed in school and graduated top in her class. With her first year of college going the way she planned and with her parents becoming more strict as men are noticing her more and more, she can’t help but feel like her life is missing something. She wonders of how it is down the streets at night with the homies from el varrio. The cruises, the kickbacks and breaking the rules of society. She can’t help but curiously crave to see how a night down the boulevard would be.

Manuel Guerrero, was a different story. He wasn’t raised in the streets, the streets raised him. In a home with a single mother and two younger sisters, he was the man of the house at 9 years of age. Father incarcerated for murder and narcotics, he was sentenced to life in prison. Leaving the gang to constantly watch over the Guerrero family until Manny was of age to be jumped into his father’s gang. It wasn’t his choice, it was his fate. A prophecy that he had to fulfill as soon as his mother discovered she was having a son. All of Manny’s life, he was never one to choose the decisions, decisions were always made for him. He yearns for not having to always be watching his back for rival gang members, for wanting something normal in his life, something stable.

Sex. Drugs. Tragedy. Love. Betrayal. Life. Death. Down the boulevard, there’s only two options: Let the way of the streets seduce you as she takes your life, or to turn the other way and make it out safely. Either way, you lose your heart one way or another.