Undaunted, Peter tries his best to forget about the burglary and move on. But his misfit friends, all members of the Warriors, just won't let him. Spurred on by his friends' teasing and the desire simply to shut them up, he reluctantly sets out to find out who ripped him off.

Set in the bowels of the 1980s, "Las Cucarachas" is a coming-of-age story that documents the most important 48 hours of a boy's life.