The Cruz family is volatile even in the best of times. On this particular day, Nelson, the youngest son, enters the house in a panic to hide the more obvious religious relics from the sight of his non-Hispanic girlfriend, who is visiting for the weekend. Nelson’s mother, Dahlia, is obsessed with retrieving her husband from his new girlfriend; Eddie, her elder son, shows up in a van with his failed life and pregnant girlfriend, but the real pandemonium is caused by sweet, long suffering Dolores, Dahlia’s old-maid sister, when she sees the face of the Holy Virgin in a tortilla! As the family struggles with beliefs and conflicts the endurance of family love is revealed to be the real miracle.