Lyn Miller-Lachmann

In early-1980s Brooklyn, JJ Pankowski, an autistic white boy who loves punk rock, and Pie Velez, a Black and Puerto Rican boy who does graffiti art, form an unlikely friendship across racial and class lines. Family struggles and police injustice put that bond to the test.

In 1960s Portugal under Salazar's dictatorship, sixteen-year-old Sónia secretly sees a young printer of banned books, and when he's arrested and her family's fado restaurant is shut down she begins to see her country clearly.