Tras ser plantada en el altar por su prometido, una joven ejecutiva adicta al trabajo decide compartir el crucero de su luna de miel en el Caribe con una de las personas con las que jamás pensó verse en una situación así: su padre, otro adicto al trabajo con el que apenas tiene relación. Lo que comienza siendo un viaje tenso por la falta de confianza, tras algunas aventuras y cócteles, termina convirtiéndose en una reconciliación con la vida y una enseñanza sobre el aprecio a la familia.
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
Following in the footsteps of the first film, "The Price of the American Dream II" continues the story of Laura Munoz who has grown considerably older and is now a single mother with four children after the death of her husband Chendo. As a result, Laura moves her family from Los Angeles, California to Albuquerque, New Mexico in hopes of gaining a better life for herself and for her children Manny, Alexendra, Daniel, and Carlos. However, life proves to be just as hard in a new state when Manny and Alex begin hanging out with the wrong crowd including the fact that Carlos is now constantly getting in trouble at school and Daniel is even trapped in the middle of it. It seems the price of the American dream has only risen higher since Laura first found it.