Desperate for money Rodney and Leon start up a low budget strip club in Rodney s parents basement. The two friends run into a few problems though, from faulty strippers to nasty loan sharks, but their biggest problem might just be keeping the whole operation secret from Mom and Dad.

Charlie Bradford, an aspiring filmmaker in his 30s, is doing the best he can to distance himself from the chaos of his childhood home. But his eccentric mother Linda, a compulsive hoarder who suffers from depression punctuated by spells of manic consumption, has a tendency to keep the people and things she loves close at hand. Charlie's younger sisters still live at home with Linda: Lisa, the older of the two has a history of petty theft and works as a home healthcare aid, and Penny, who is trying to overcome her agonizing shyness is starting a a new career as a home stager in a beleaguered real estate market.

Character triumphs over adversity and temptation when a young African-American man is unexpectedly thrust onto the streets of Harlem.