In a world plagued by systematic oppression, Billy Evans finds out early how ruthless life could be for a fatherless, teenage boy growing up in America's ghetto. Exposed to his family's financial difficulties immediately after his father's death, Evan's turns to his neighbor, T-bone, for guidance and answers. Despite mama's forbiddance, Evan's learns from T-bone that life is a rat race in a dog eat dog world, and quickly becomes absorbed into the false riches of a drug dealer's life. Caught up in a whirlwind of violence, corruption, addiction, murder, and greed, Evans inevitably crosses paths with a corrupt cop named John Green who, sadly, has become a product of America's cut throat, greedy, capitalistic system.