A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Sometimes the only way to move forward is to go back.

A melancholic retrospective on a violent, aimless youth in Queens that examines how friendship, loss, and the passage of time shape identity and the possibility of redemption.

Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.