A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
A docu-fiction hybrid following two lead actors from the 2013 drama Bad Hair: Sam Lange who played the child Junior and the actress who played his mother, Samantha Castillo. Both were forced to leave Venezuela.
