A City in Chaos: During the Freddie Gray uprising in Baltimore, a concerned mother rushes home to ensure her kids are all safe.

Bottled Spirits: 50-something Louise is a native of West Oakland, California; a community once known as the Harlem of the West, and which gave birth to the Black Panther Party. Gentrification has turned her beloved community into unfriendly and unrecognizable territory and the weight of being Black in America now threatens to crush her. She straps on the daily armor of alcohol, cigarettes and a sharp tongue to block out the constant ache of losing everything that ever mattered. On this day however, a door she has been banging on for years magically opens, an ancestor arrives to help and Louise battles her demons – and herself – in a desperate attempt to find the courage to walk the difficult path toward redemption.

Hard: 12 year old Javonte Freeman juggles puberty, a bully, and grief while learning the rules of survival in her tough neighborhood.