The Dogs, Barking is the story of a boy growing up on the Mexican border in Texas who, as he grows into a man, battles with the demons his upbringing has instilled in him. First, he must navigate the wild-eyed, rebellious temptations of university life in the sixties and then the raw power of the concrete jungle of New York as he desperately pursues an acting career he hopes will quiet the fiends that torment him. To his astonishment, he finds the answer in the home he had abandoned and the lonely howl of the dogs that once serenaded him to sleep.