Dishonorably discharged from his tour in Iraq, Buggy (Corey Hawkins) returns to inner city Memphis to face bleak dangers of the domestic kind. Gunshots ring out from drug deals, triggering his PTSD. Another invasion looms--from a developer who plans to raze the public housing where Buggy lives with his grandmother Big Mama (Tonya Pinkins) and his 13-year old daughter Cookie (Joanquina Kalukango). Crank (Marsha Stephanie Blake), Cookie’s mother, goes back on crack, succumbing to “boredom and chaos.” On every corner, injustice, neglect, and despair greet Buggy, who must struggle to survive amid this battery of strife. As the closing scene’s rappers sum up: “This... More >>>