In Concepto de Ciudadano, a man recounts his journey crossing the border with his mother as a three-year-old and growing up in Los Angeles. After years of caution, he was detained, sent to a deportation center in Texas, and sentenced to return to Mexico. In this exploration of the tensions and ties between identity, belonging, and place, impressionistic images of life in California represent his story—fragments of the everyday that paint a picture of the home he was forced to leave behind and amplify the psychological toll he endured. ST