All the Angry Young Men

Martin knew his life had changed irrevocably. He was standing in a field in Maryland, just north of the DC line, and he was pointing his gun at Charlie Viese's crotch, and trying to reason with him.
 
All the Angry Young Men, is a love story and the effects a dystopian world has upon this love. Martin is a cop in the DC barrio in our near future. The barrios were set up to hold all Latinos while the government of the U.S. sorts out which people are legal and which are to be deported. Ten years later it looks as though the barrios are not going anywhere.
 
While the barrios have prospered the society at large has become more and more corrupt and lawless. In the foreign press they call the barrios concentration camps. Martin imagines that the rest of the world thinks he works in Auschwitz. Martin likes the barrio. It's the rest of his life that’s the problem.
 
Martin has grown up in a world where two societies exist side by side. One where censorship, scapegoating and half-truths are common, and an egalitarian society with democracy, free speech and where education is universal, but where everyone is, in fact, a prisoner. Though the two societies interact daily, they are also very separate. They have different rules and mores.
 
In this world, Latinas don’t have sex before marriage and they certainly don’t have it with Gringos. So In some circles for a Gringo to seduce and sleep with a Latina is a bit of a badge of honor. To fall in love is a different story entirely. Apart from just not being done, there's no future in it. After all, the Latinas live in the barrios and Gringos live outside. Martin and Eliana have broken this rule and have fallen in love. Eliana is educated, way above Martin socially. Yet she risks her very respected status, even the possibility of being ostracized by the only society she can live in for love.
 
Martin and Eliana have found a happiness, which they intend to keep. Their world falls apart when, after ten years of neglect and rampant larceny, the government of the United States, that has kept the barrio system intact, finally collapses. Eventually the barrios are to be dismantled and the residents deported. The people of the barrios who are also recognized U.S. citizens, like Eliana, are allowed to stay.
 
Martin wants Eliana to stay. She says she won't and wants him to go with her. After several fights over this Martin admits that one of the main reason he won't leave is that he is uneducated, unskilled and yet he has an important job where he's respected. He would not be able to do anything like being a Cop anywhere else. In fact that he was a Cop in the barrio would be a big mark against him. The rest of the world after all, believes that being a DC Cop is like being a guard at Auschwitz.