wyldcheri
In the sweltering streets of 1980s Brooklyn, twenty-year-old Iesa-Sallah "Silk" Vaziri is trying to outrun poverty before it swallows his young family whole.
By day, he is a devoted husband and new father living in a cramped project apartment with his wife, Halima, and their one year old son.
By night, he moves through a seductive underworld of pimps, hustlers, luxury, and fast money under the guidance of the infamous Precious Johnson.
Handsome, intelligent, and dangerously charismatic, Silk quickly becomes the kind of man people cannot ignore. Women fall for him. Men begin to respect him. And as Brooklyn's nightlife pulls him deeper into its glittering jaws, the line between Iesa - the soft-spoken boy from the projects - and Silk - the cold, irresistible figure he is becoming - begins to disappear.
Caught between loyalty, lust, ambition, and survival, Silk must navigate a world where desire is currency, power is everything, and love can become the deadliest weakness of all.