A concentration of Latino owned restaurants open for business just a few years apart in a neighborhood dominated by multiple modern banks and unused parking lots. What seemed to be a promising new beginning for a mostly hidden minority population along Central Avenue, the events of a single day force these restaurateurs with an unexpected and uncertain decision; to give up on their dreams, or to stay and persevere. Avenida Central (Central Avenue in Spanish) is a story of how people from completely different Latin American roots find themselves in the small city of Staunton, VA, open up shop in the same neighborhood, and how a community rallied behind them in the midst a global pandemic and a local natural disaster.