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Nineteen-year-old Matty Rich directed this autobiographical story that covers a few days in the life of a teenager and his troubled African-American family. Desperate to break away from the cycle of poverty and violence, he agrees to join his friends inan ill-fated scheme to rob a neighborhood drug dealer.

Two Brooklynites successfully rob a local drug lord but learn the only way out of the projects is through honest work or a body bag.