Cinco De Mayo

El Maestro is an idealistic Chicano studies instructor at a junior college in a small rural town. Despite dwindling classes he is determined to bring to light the many injustices within their community and inspire political action. But his students don’t care; they want to party on Cinco de Mayo. Aside from his star pupil, Magdalena, the rest of the class laughs at El Maestro and his out dated views on Chicanos and activism. But El Maestro is positive and remains confident that his students really need guidance. Upon planning a Cinco de Mayo protest against a rash of racially motivated violence against Mexican immigrants involving flag burning and an unsolved murder, El Maestro is thwarted by his boss, Dean Liberstein. The Dean accuses El Maestro of being a ‘racist radical’ and a trouble maker. With his life’s work deemed ‘obsolete’, he is fired. El Maestro is crushed.