Despite a light and bubbly opening, this story fallows Bridget, a young college girl in the 60's, as she abandons her life of social normality with her brothers to dare protest the Vietnam war, cope her friend through homophobic violent attacks, comprehend that not everyone sees color as only skin deep, and deal with the stress PTSD can put on love. There is charge everyone must pay to live their life, and for her group of nonconformist friends (Liam, Rohan, Jensen, Darnel, Dawn, and Genny), sometimes even a quick death is the lowest price you can hope for, because the lose of hope is far worse.
Raniyah finds herself in the middle of violence all the time. Whether it's at home or school. At school she deals with a bitchy teenage head cheerleader who believe she is the shit and turns out to be her boyfriend's sister. Raniyah old love enters her life again and threatens to break up their relationship. As he does this Raniyah finds her feelings and love for him starting to resurface. Meanwhile her two brothers that she hadn't know existed are in different gangs and violence soars between them and someone has to die.