Towards the backdrop of New York and New Orleans, Elliott, Leanne and Jermaine query their capability to dream amidst a crumbling financial local weather. Opening within the streets of downtown Manhattan, Elliott (23), residing at dwelling after faculty, is surrounded by incomplete initiatives, pissed off and searching for function. Concurrently, in New Orleans, Leanne (26), an aspiring mannequin/actress and single mom of 4, struggles to choose up the items, presenting at occasions a conflict between household and her bold profession. Stricken by an unforgiving felony report, Jermaine (22), a New Orleans native, shifts by means of his dwelling city for what looks as if a hopeless try at authorized employment. After a sequence of rejections, he resolves to reinvent himself in hopes of efficiently beginning anew.