Concrete Roots

When 17-year-old Amani "Mani" Carter loses his best friend Kamari to police violence, he picks up a spray can and turns grief into resistance-painting powerful murals across South Side Chicago to keep Kamari's memory alive.

But as tensions rise and the city pushes back, Mani learns that honoring the dead might put the living in danger-especially when a buried family secret threatens to tear everything apart.

With his older sister Zaria trying to keep them both afloat and his childhood friend Stretch pulled deeper into the streets, Mani must decide how far he's willing to go for truth, legacy, and justice.

Some roots break concrete. Others grow through it.

A story of grief, survival, and finding family in the cracks.