The Gonzalez family celebrates the wedding of Esteban and his bride Ofelia. However, sadness looms over the festivities when Jess' eldest son, Conrado, a doctor in the U.S. Army, tells his father he's being shipped to Iraq. This bitter news causes Jess to remember why his family escaped from Mexico during the Revolution to seek a better life in America, and the sacrifices the family made in the 1990s to send their first-born son to medical school.