Bud Buckwald is a border patrol agent who lives with his wife and three children in a Southwest desert town on the United States - Mexico border. Bud is a bit behind the times and feels threatened by the cultural changes happening in his neighborhood.

Next door to Bud lives Ernesto Gonzalez, a family man who has lived in the country for 10 years but has had more success than Bud.

As the two families' paths start crossing more and more, their members are affected in different ways. Some find romance, others are met with conflict, but above all there is friendship that is formed.