Seventeen year-old Naja Wadjet is a prodigiously gifted and promising Guyanese-American student at New York's acclaimed Alvin Ailey School of Modern Dance. Her once certain future as a principal soloist for the legendary company is thrown into disarray by the sudden eruption of her family's darkest secrets. As her home life crumbles, Naja is forced to abandon the comfort and security she as known as the daughter of a prominent and well-to-do minister in the West Indian enclave of East Flatbush, Brooklyn, and fend for herself in a world without structure, rules, and seemingly without mercy....