House on Mango Street

What is home and how does it affect our personality? Do we build our lives according to the rules instilled at home or against them? Do we run away from it and always want to return, or do we cling to home and long to leave it? Twelve-year-old Esperanza asks herself these questions, not yet consciously, intuitively, when she observes the life of the Mexican community in the city of Chicago, where she belongs. In a series of small sketches, covering one year of the girl's life, the most notable moments of her growing up are described. Some of them are bright and cheerful, some are sad or shameful, and others are devastating with their tragedy. Not Mexican, but not American either, no longer a child, but not yet an adult - Esperanza tells a story with every step of her brown shoe.