At 15, Inocente Izucar Galicia had led a life few of us could ever imagine. For nine years, she lived with secrets she never shared with anyone at her school in San Diego, Calif. – she was undocumented and homeless. She says she blamed herself that her father was deported for domestic abuse. Her mother of four once took her by the hand to jump off a bridge together in order to put an end to the misery. It was Inocente who saved them.

No matter how devastating things got, Inocente still looks at life through the eyes of an innocent child, where all dreams are possible. She is an artist who spews out vibrant colors, making the world around her look like a colorful playground. Thanks to an award-winning documentary,“Inocente,” which tells her story, Inocente has been able to sell her art and is no longer one of the 1 in 45 children in the U.S. without a home. It will air on Friday, August 17 at 10pm on MTV.

“I wanted to put a face on all the issues going on,” says Inocente who narrates the entire documentary. “It’s nice to know that I was the one able to give a voice to it.”

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