Our story explores three days in the lives of the Hispanic community of Manhattan’s Washington Heights. Love, family, community, gentrification* and immigration set in a New York City barrio.

In The Heights, portrays three days in the life of a group of neighbors from Washington Heights, a Latino neighborhood north of Manhattan, New York. A place where Caribbean rhythms such as salsa, hip-hop and rap, vibrate and spice life. Dreams of living a better life, worries about making ends meet and an unbearable heat in the middle of a power cut set the framework of these stories. We share the experience of immigrants or their children, who must search for growth opportunities in order to go back home triumphantly or try to improve their situations and leave the slums.

Still, these stories with different directions, have something in common: LOVE and the true meaning of the word HOME.