Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a 19 year old Kansas City organization prospect in Dominican Republic. His father is dead and he's the great hope of the family. He spends his money to upgrade his family home. Everybody expects big things to come. He is sent to America and rises in the farm system. He stays with the Higgins and falls for their daughter Anne (Ellary Porterfield). His rise stalls when he's injured. He struggles and even tries performance drugs. Eventually he quits and leaves for New York.
It's a nice slice of life. It's a great poverty stricken struggle in the baseball world. Algenis Perez Soto isn't really an actor which works in this case. The turn in the third act throws me off a little but it ends with a great scene. The unexpected turn also adds a sense of unpredictable reality. This is a great indie.
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