...dunya! The do or die

The year was 1971, and Khalid Muhammad spoke out emphatically against the violence and drugs that plagued the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn community, and tragically he's killed as a result of. Following soon after, a bitter, violent, vortex encircles the lives of his family.

It's now 1985, and his wife Waseema struggles against all odds to hold the family down, but it all gets away from her, quickly. The oldest son, Mustapha, resorts to selling drugs; Rasheed, another sibling, gets caught up in robbing drug dealers; and a sister, Shaheeda, falls prey to the crack-cocaine and prostitution that ravages the once proud and thriving Bushwick-Hylan Projects.

To only make matters worse, Rasheed and his crew rob a larger than life stash of cash and drugs from one of Brooklyn's top dope pushers, and then make plans to take down his main stash next. In the complex web and circle of events that take place next, Rasheed unwittingly stumbles on a break surrounding circumstances involving his father's death; and the web is further tangled as he finds out all too late, that unknowingly, betrayal by his lover, and his best friend hinder his quest to get closer to the ones responsible.

However, his crew, and his family manage to all unite in an attempt to get from under the clutches of a phycotic drug king-pen, Carlos. In the all too thrilling, Houdini-like finish, his father's past threatens to hold on to secrets that may one day set Rasheed free from his demons.

But, all is not lost as Khalid's last words are revealed; a Arabic translation for the melodramatic lunacy of Rasheed's crazed world-the only clue...dunya!