23-year-old Regina ‘Gigi’ Parker is a single black mother who's working a less-than-minimum-wage job at Hagan’s Diner in Downtown Atlanta. She’s barely making enough to get by. When confronted with child protective services she swallows her pride and applies for welfare. They only give her enough money to do for her son and him only. When her insane best friend accidentally drops an idea into her lap, she makes the decision to do whatever it takes to give her son the life he deserves.