Set along the border of Texas and Mexico, American Tumbleweeds tells the bittersweet story of a Mexican-American family’s struggle to stay together as tradition collides with the social upheaval of 1960s America.

Inez’s family threatens to fly apart when her father gets arrested smuggling marijuana into the U.S. Inez finds refuge in the old ways cherished by her beloved Mexican grandmother. But life in El Paso is far more exciting, as the explosion of new personal freedom shatters traditions on both sides of the border.

From Amalia, the matriarchal grandmother, to Inez, woman-child of the 1960s, these “American tumbleweeds” portray every family: loving and clinging, wounding deeply while comforting in the soul-deep ways that only families can reach.