Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life) takes us to the predominantly Latino Echo Park area of Los Angeles where some feisty young women struggle to survive in an environment where lives are shredded by violence, drugs, poverty, and self-destructiveness. Sad Girl and Mousie, friends since childhood, try to hold on to their good feelings for each other while raising the children of the same two-timing father. La Blue Eyes, a college student, has a platonic affair that ends badly with a convict who writes to her from prison. And Giggles, a gang member who has just gotten out of jail, tries to convince her sisters in Echo Park to rely upon themselves since most of their men will be in prison, disabled, or dead by the time they are 21. Mi Vida Loca, directed by Allison Anders, shows how difficult it is for women to just get by in the barrio.