A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side.

The jocular competition between four childhood friends fluctuates between amusement and menace.

Family bonds are tested when a young man is left to care for his grandmother one morning.