When the Mulberry children follow in their dead father’s footsteps, they are seduced into the violent world of crime, drugs and gangs. Their mother, ever the optimist, tries to hold the family together despite the death and destruction that surrounds them. One by one the Mulberry’s fall prey to the ugliness that has haunted them all their lives. When the younger daughter falls for a violent drug dealer and witnesses a murder it’s all a mother can do to hope that her youngest child can survive the violence and pain. Sometimes all you can do is hope for better days.