What starts out as a pilgrimage to a women’s conference turns into an unexpected journey toward self-awareness for four dynamic, sexy women. Jackie confronts her vulnerability as she falls for a handsome lawyer, while Hazel makes the toughest confession f her life. Lourdes stands up to her conservative mother, and Irena faces her demons. As they make their way from town to town, laughing, fighting, crying, and bonding., they learn more about one another, and themselves, than they ever bargained for — and turn plenty of heads along the way. Meet the chicas!
Jackie Alvarado, 21
With an interminable fiestiness that radiates through her five-nine athletic build to the tips of her untamed hair, proud Afro-Latina Jackie is the undisputed leader of the pack. She’s the first to yell “Black is beautiful,” but these days not so triumphantly, when her boyfriend, Wil, keeps taking calls from his Vanessa Williams-esque ex, who still hounds him for playdates with her adorable son Eric. Jackie’s positive the ex is just using the kid to steal Wil back, but whatever… It’s not like Jackie’s, like, in love or anything.
Carmen “Hazel” Flores, 21
Bombshell Hazel can have any many she wants… if and when she wants one, that is. This lipstick lesbian (with only one foot of the closet) has eyes for only one woman — Jackie. Never mind that they’ve been best friends since they were thirteen. Despite Jackie’s tomboyish ways, she is relentlessly straight and irreversibly in love with Wil. With that relationship at a crossroads, Hazel is convinced the time finally has come to get her woman. It’s now or never.
Irena Rodriguez, 19
Yoga, numerology, Reiki, tarot… asthmatic Irena never met a holistic treatment, new Age philosophy or occult science she wouldn’t try. A borderline psychic (but don’t call her that), her intuition has served her better than any old religion. The petite blue-eyed blonde hates speaking Spanish like a gringa and being likened to Cameron Diaz. Still suffering from a traumatic experience during her first year in college during her first year in college, Irena idolizes Jackie and envies her kick-ass attitude. Where the hell was her inner chola when she needed her most?
Lourdes Becerra, 20
Rich girl-turned-rabble rouser Lourdes will march as long and far for the perfect pair of Gucci sunglasses as she will for a woman’s right to choose. She may be a devoted Catholic, but her God believes in live and let live. If her conservative mother in Denver only knew how often Lourdes threw her money at her working-class friends’ problems! But Mama doesn’t even know that her pre-med daughter is snapping photographs of the immigrant neighborhoods in New York City when she should be poring over a petri dish.
