THE DISHWASHER'S SON, follows the odyssey of a teenage American Minuteman volunteer, whose accidental deportation to Mexico takes a dramatic turn when he finds an Uncle, and together they discover the truth about his father's disappearance. After meeting his father's family, and coming to grips with the Mexican heritage he has spent his whole life denying, he is refused re-entry to the US because he has recently been deported. Now he must sneak across the border using all of the various different methods the people he used to help catch have used. With each attempted border crossing and subsequent apprehension, the charges against him increase, culminating in a desperate decision: cross the desert, and face possible death or prison; or live life as an illegal alien in Mexico.