Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.
When an attorney discovers her client committed murder to close a deal she flees to Las Vegas pursued to two relentless hitmen.
An earnest G.I. returning home from European trenches awaits a woman to whom he has written but never seen.
