Cleavon Louis, gets a new neighbor, who offers him a doorway into the street life of dealing for a living, which cleavon acccepts, for all the wrong reasons. From then on, he learns all the lessons the sreet has to offer, betrayal, death, lost of freedom, despair, an just maybe, possibly, "Hope". As the streets seem to suck up all around him, he must fight not to have himself sucked away into nothingness, as well.