The film was directed by The Mack director Michael Campus, and starring Rony Clanton, Don Gordon, Joyce Walker, Paul Benjamin, and Mary Alice.

A young Black American teenager and three of his friends are in the process of breaking into a local market to steal food and money.

As they are leaving, the other gang members notice Sonny who is attempting to purchase a bouquet of flowers from a nearby shop.

While trying to reestablish connections with his former gang members, Sonny learns that the drug trade has claimed the lives of many of his former friends.

With a renewed purpose in life, Sonny fights the drug trade under a new alias, Mwlina Lmiri Abubadika.

The film explores challenges facing the African American population during their struggle to obtain civil rights, and sheds light on both political and social issues of the time such as poverty, drug abuse, and police discrimination and brutality.

Wu-Tang Clan, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, AZ, Common, Ghostface Killah, Pete Rock, Lauryn Hill, Roc Marciano, 2 Chainz, Kur and DJ Rob Swift have sampled dialogue from the film in their music.