After a Brooklyn man is released from prison for vehicular homicide, he attempts to care for the son and girlfriend of his best friend who died in a fire years ago.

A young Black man returns home to his small Ohio town from Vietnam and becomes a drug pusher to make money, only to face that violence of a father after his son dies of a suspected drug overdose.

When a young man attempts to prove himself to a gang he wants to join by stealing money from a local bar, he fails miserably multiple times and ends up involving other men in his failures.