Plot
This film tells two interwoven stories of two singleparent families in a poor raciallymixed neighborhood in Brooklyn The first story is about a young black man with aspirations of getting away from his friends who are involved in drugs who falls in love with a latino girl who is heading off to college on a full scholarship The second is about their parents she works in the neighborhood liquor store he works for the phone company The story takes place against the backdrop of a winning lottery ticket worth 27 million being sold to someone in the neighborhood from the liquor store