A series of interconnected vignettes and characters explores themes of race, incarceration, family, heartbreak, and love.

A mother takes her son and his friend to a prison to see the electric chair to teach the boys about right and wrong at an early age.

Shortly before WWII, a young girl grows up on the grounds of a mental asylum where her father is Chief of Psychiatry. She experiences sexual assault at the hands of one of the patients who her father has become taken with.

Three boys navigate their youth in Chicago, but are forced to grow up quickly when they start cooking drugs for money.