

The edge-in shelters, in projects, on the street-live, talk and survive. In an abandoned bus garage with a steep admission charge guaranteed to boost his family's income.īooth, a writing consultant for the NYC Housing Authority, clearly understands how teens living on Inspired by his father, he decides to throw a secret dance party

His mom's ineffectual attemptsĪt keeping the family afloat financially and emotionally soon fall flat, and Tyrell is forced to take theįamily's situation into his own hands. After his DJ father is incarcerated for drug dealing, 15-year-old Tyrell, his brother and his motherĪre rendered homeless and move to a slummy city shelter in the Bronx.
