Quiara Alegria Hudes’ contemporary road trip musical tackles a variety of problems in our society, including immigration, documentation, broken families, abandonment and teenage suicide.

The story involves an undocumented Latina mother who had abandoned her teenage daughter and returns to try to make a connection by taking her on a road trip. Beatriz Santiago (Nicole Paloma Sarro) wants to bond with her daughter, Olivia (Tanya Avendano Stockler), who has self-image and suicidal thoughts, but she also has an ulterior motive. She faces deportation and needs somebody to vouch (lie) for her.

Off they go to L.A., arguing one moment and connecting the next, stopping along the way to meet an aging gay couple, tourists at Yellowstone, and a tamale street vendor. More like a play with music than a Broadway musical, it wanders all over the country, from Philly to L.A.

Both Sarro and Stockler are making their Wilbury debuts, bringing impressive résumés with them. The rest of the cast takes a back seat, serving as a variety of characters. Tom Roberts and Roger Lemelin, two Wilbury regulars, stand out as the gay couple.

Director Don Mays has created a confined stage for a wide open scenario, using a background matte, a series of intertwined wooden ladders, and a make-shift front seat of a truck.

The three-person band provides music for the many songs that fill in the blanks to a story that deals with mother-daughter relationships within a larger growing problem of immigration.

The musical runs a little over an hour and a half with no intermission at Olneyville’s Wilbury Theatre through March 29. Go online at thewilburygroup.org for reservations.