 This documentary is about a group of low-income working-class families in Brooklyn, Nrew York, who must go up against developers who want to bulldoze their neighborhood to put up a shopping mall, an act which would leave many of them without a place to call home. We are shown what life is like in this close-knit neighborhood; the friendships between families, the celebrations, etc. We are also shown how the developers s plans would change everyone s lives and separate old friends who have lived their for generations. We also see their organized protests, their pleas to various elected officials. In the end their actions save their neighborhood.