Steven C. Johnson

Le 1er janvier 2009 au matin, Oscar Grant, 22 ans, croise des agents de police dans la station de métro Fruitvale, San Francisco. Le film raconte les vingt quatre heures qui ont précédé cette rencontre.

Four boys, now men, still live in their neighborhood. The community has transformed and what remains is the "hood." Each man negotiates his way through the day surviving the hood and each one has a plan to be set free.