A drug dealer tries to get out of the life and start anew with his girlfriend, but the transition is tragically difficult.

Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.

The life story of Hector Lavoe who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States.