Shatonda is a young girl coming of age in the ghetto. It is always a price you pay you can?t make that transition without a price especially when the streets help raise you. First it was her mother marrying a un loving man a drug abuser who by no choice of her own became her verbally abusive stepfather then it was her color struck stepsister and the strain this put on a mother and daughter relationship. Looking for love and acceptance she ventures into the streets and hooks up with two streetwise sisters. She is just as green as a granny smith apple but she was ripening enough to catch Lucky?s eye a small time street pimp Will Jealousy destroy everything?