Becoming more than your circumstances is hard, especially when life on the South Side of Chicago keeps pulling you down. But guts, talent and grit can get you up and out.
Gideon Valsecchi's fantasy life is so close he can touch it, and Elijah Tucker is a big part of the dream, but it's one thing to want it all, it's another to be man enough to live it.
Being gay in their neighborhood is perilous. Being gay in a street gang is unheard of. Being gay and in love with a man in a rival gang is a death wish. Through drug addiction, brutality, and seemingly endless peril, they remain; finding stability within each other that shouldn’t exist in their volatile world.