Sam and Cinnamon are an unlikely pair of stick-up artists, with their minds set on hitting that one big score that will secure their piece of the American Dream. A major obstacle in their way is not being able to cleanly break ties with people from their past. They quickly learn that not everybody wants to see you come up, especially if it means leaving them behind.But people aren't the only thing they are trying to leave in their rearview... Cinnamon is struggling to escape the memories of loss and anguish that has followed her throughout life, while Sam is trying to elude a repeat of history. Together, the pair face-off against their pasts, and it seems that they have a fighting chance. That is until? A past job puts them both in a compromising position and detours them from their main objective; pulling them back to where they both started. The picture-perfect scheme they have is starting to crumble right before their eyes and a true picture of ghetto America develops.