 The story of Mitchell, a ten-year-old African American who lives with his mom in a crack-infested hotel in downtown L.A. Mitchell misses the school bus one day and quickly becomes the property of Chris; a suicidal drug dealer who might be losing his mind. Chris forces Mitchell to deliver guns and drugs while he hangs out on a rooftop and freaks out all day. The story chronicles eight hours of Mitchell s journey through the shady, deadly core of downtown Los Angeles, while his crack head mother and her associate plan a brutal murder^Å but they have to get a gun. Mitchell s journey takes him to a small downtown hovel where colorful Asian kids play with Nerf guns and buy E tabs with their rich parents  money. Then, he must take the money from the E sale to the Industrial district where a drunken old gun runner makes him hide in the closet when he gets a visitor then he takes the gun to a modern day opium den where T-mon, a spaced out pimp, cannot get a card trick right. While Mitchell is there, his mother shows up to get the gun. Then Mitchell s life really starts to get difficult.