1992, South Cental Los Angelos, six years passed since the L.A. Riots, but war still bounds our lives, a war where we graduate everyday we live. Blue or red creates our uniforms, sureño or norteño, crips or bloods, creates our title, and our race creates our label. As we rep our flags and throw up our symbols, to calling our people with a signature whistle, to killing others with our only weapons, trying to stay alive for another session. This is where it happens. This is El Barrio.

"I honestly thought that this would all be over once my cousin got arrested, but the games in Schaefer had JUST begun." -Josh.

Andree Valdez is a Honduran bound gang member, of the most popular Latin gang in the world: The Esses. He also leads two lives. Isamariá Milian is an Alabama born, average teenaged girl, who struggles to get anything done along with her family. But, when the two collide, it's no telling what could happen.

On the west coast of the United States, lies the city of Los Angeles. At night, this city is where you would find the most Ruthless Gangsters--Carlos Rodriguez and Anthony Simmons. This city is also where you would find Aaliyah, a well known teenage chola in the streets. After being under Carlos' wing for nearly eleven years, Aaliyah finally gets a taste of the gang life after being attacked by the Rock Gang, only to find out that Anthony had been plotting to kill her for a decade.