Tim, a white kid from the suburbs, spends a week in the inner-city of Providence, Rhode Island. He gets into a game of basketball at the Cranston Street Park, but is unprepared for the upheaval that follows. Everything he thought he knew about life and his place in the society gets rewritten in a violent melee that has him running for his life. Tim soon learns that everything he thought he knew, he really doesnt, and that nobody in Providence is who they seem to be.