A young woman struggles to learn Spanish in order to reconnect with her immigrant grandfather, but when life gets in the way, she learns that love transcends language.

Cardboard Skies follows Ivy, a young woman fighting to keep her little brother safe after eviction leaves them living out of their car. When a run-in with their drug-addicted mother threatens to unravel the fragile life Ivy's been holding together, she's forced to make an impossible choice between family and survival.