Noblezada’s tender, honest performance bolsters this refreshing perspective as Rose, facing mounting setbacks, repeatedly returns to her music and the inspiration it provides. Rose, with her love of country music that blends her Filipino heritage with American musical tradition, makes for a rather literal representation of assimilation, but one that’s thankfully not overly familiar. Without confronting the enormity of the national immigration crisis head-on, Paragas enlarges a glimpse of one fractured family’s attempt to hang on to a tattered shred of the American Dream into a humanistic portrait of hope and perseverance. Rose knows that if she shows herself she’ll be arrested too, so she convinces Elliot to take her across town to her estranged aunt Gail (Salonga), who lives in a spacious home in a wealthy Austin suburb, where Rose will try to regroup and figure out her remaining options. By the time Elliot gets her back home it’s almost dawn, and just as they arrive Rose realizes that her worst nightmare is happening right before her eyes: an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on the motel, with her mom taken into custody. Bar owner Jolene (Libby Villari) rescues her after she drinks way too much booze, helping Rose to sober up.
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Rose’s fake ID gets her inside, but her amateur credentials are on full display as a lively house band led by alt-country musician Dale Watson plays two-step tunes for the crowd.
Despite her misgivings, he does manage to persuade her to sneak away with him for an evening of parentally unsanctioned music and dancing at downtown Austin honky-tonk The Broken Spoke, telling her mom they’re going to a church meeting. For Rose, it’s more than a hobby, but she’s reluctant to share her country-inflected compositions, even when cute classmate Elliot (Liam Booth), who works at the guitar store, tries to coax a few tunes out of her. illegally ever since, although Rose’s typical teenage concerns mostly revolve around fitting in at school and composing songs on her beat-up acoustic guitar. Somewhat warily, they’ve remained in the U.S.
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