Animación Boricua

An upper middle class white young girl leaves her suburban family in shock when she moves in with her lover, an Afro-Latino trumpeter.

Based on a Puerto Rican folk tale, the story begins when Mañito, an owl, is invited to a festival. Not feeling happy with the way he looks, Mañito borrows some bright colored feathers in order to attend.

Details the migration of Puerto Ricans to Hawaii in the early 1900's and examines the cultural legacy passed on to the present generation of Puerto Rican Hawaiians.

A critique of the unrestrained consumption on the island, the film portrays what happens to a couple who begins to fill each other with objects in place of love.