Tired of unequal treatment, Mexican-American student activist Paula Crisostomo (Vega) decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968 to protest educational conditions and to complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students. Based on a true story .
Walkout
A teacher becomes a mentor to Chicano high-school students protesting injustices in schools in 1968.
