Revolves around two very different families living in a fictional Southwest desert town on the U.S.-Mexico border. Bud Buckwald is a married father of three and a Border Patrol agent who is just a tad behind the times and feels slightly threatened by the cultural changes transforming his neighborhood. He lives next door to Ernesto Gonzalez, an ambitious immigrant and family man who has been in the country less than 10 years but already is doing better than Bud – which, it turns out, is a bit of an issue for the less-industrious native.
