Henry and his friends were put in jail after being convicted with the murder of Jose Diaz at the sleepy lagoon, George Shearer comes to the jail cell where the boys are located to try and help them handle the murder case. The film presents a foreshadowing moment, as his mother wishes that he returned to jail instead of going to World War II in the Navy. Dolores has a bad feeling about him dressing in the zoot suit. The film transitions to before everything happened back in his room where El Pachuco who is Henry’s internal voice is standing next to his dresser and hands him a switchblade to put in his pocket after Henry gets dressed a zoot suit. Police officers then interrogate and beat him. Henry Reyna, a young Mexican American, gets arrested for murder by the LAPD a day before he leaves for the Navy at sleepy lagoon. The film starts out with singing and dancing at the party. As in the play, Edward James Olmos portrays El Pachuco, an idealized Zoot Suiter, who functions as narrator throughout the story and serves as Henry's conscience. The play is set in the barrios of Los Angeles in the early 1940s against the backdrop of the Zoot Suit Riots and World War II. In the play, Henry Reyna (inspired by real-life defendant Hank Leyvas) is a pachuco gangster and his gang, who were unfairly prosecuted, are thrown in jail for a murder they did not commit. In Zoot Suit, Luis Valdez weaves a story involving the real-life events of the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial - when a group of young Mexican-Americans were charged with murder - resulting in the racially fueled Zoot Suit Riots throughout Los Angeles. Like the play, the film features music from Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero, the "father of Chicano music."
Many members of the cast of the Broadway production also appeared in the film. The film stars Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos - both reprising their roles from the stage production - and Tyne Daly. Both the play and film were written and directed by Luis Valdez. Zoot Suit is a 1981 American independent drama musical film of the Broadway play Zoot Suit.
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