A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

Successful author Dito Montiel is called back home by his mother to visit his ailing father, stirring memories of his childhood in Astoria, Queens, during the 1980s. Growing up in a violent neighborhood with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike, Dito watched those around him fall to death, drugs or prison, and came to believe he was spared by the so-called saints in his life.