An LA street vendor wakes up with a special ability after being attacked by a racist man in the neighborhood of Frogtown. When he returns to work at his usual corner the following day, he becomes a witness to two stories of violence.
'Frutero' plunges into the gentrified, pulsating heart of Frogtown, Los Angeles, weaving together three gripping tales of violence, resilience, and redemption. A fruit stand vendor becomes the unwitting recipient of a remarkable power following a racial assault. With intellect as his weapon, a Mexican-American teen fights to break free from the chains of legacy and a life mired in crime. And a rising Latina creative director finds herself ensnared in a deadly whodunit on the set of a high-stakes perfume commercial.
BOBE, an LA street vendor awakens with a unique ability after being attacked by a racist individual in the neighborhood of Frogtown. Upon regaining consciousness in the hospital, seemingly unscathed, he discovers he can identify individuals close to death simply by observing an otherworldly vibration in them. Returning to his usual corner the next day, he becomes witness to two stories of violence. Utilizing his newfound ability, he sets off to warn those affected by the violence in Frogtown, emerging as a new kind of hero.
Our first story, titled "FROGTOWN," a thriller set in the gentrifying, Latino working-class Los Angeles neighborhood of the same name. It follows Carlos, an impoverished but brilliant high school senior who is manipulated into becoming an accessory to a botched robbery by his troubled brother, then jumped into the local gang. Carlos' lifelong neighborhood crush, Yvonne, encourages his criminal path as they fall in love, but it seems Carlos has other plans. Although Carlos begins to become enchanted with the power that it brings, gang life is not a good fit. The money that went missing from the robbery has, in fact, been in his possession the whole time. When Carlos asks Yvonne to leave town with him to start life anew, she tells him that her place is here in LA. With a group of violent, soulless monsters on his tail, Carlos has to make it out of town, hopefully with the money and Yvonne, but at the very least, with his body parts intact.
Our second story is titled 'IL COLORE DELLA NOTTE'. DARIA is a young and talented Latina Group Creative Director at one of Los Angeles' premier advertising agencies. As she assumes responsibility for her first major commercial production, her ambition to ascend in the male-dominated ad agency realm is violently disrupted by a black-clad stalker's thirst for blood. As members of the cast and crew are murdered, a young Production Assistant, NIEVES, finds herself caught in the middle after she witnesses an attack and decides to help find the culprits. UMBERTO, the commercial's director, once a revered Italian cult filmmaker, consistently makes inappropriate remarks to the models in an attempt to impress them with his "acclaimed" work, placing him right in the middle of this case as both a potential suspect and victim.
As both of these stories unfold within the same block where BOBE sets up his fruit stand, he perceives his newfound ability as an opportunity to aid his Frogtown neighbors. Will he succeed in alerting those seemingly headed for a collision course with death?
