The disappearance of the seven-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn family casts suspicion on a juvenile offender from Harlem who has recently come to live with them.
Harlem teenager Imamu Jones, repainting his mother's apartment, hoping to help her overcome her alcoholism, is troubled as he begins to suspect one of his friends may be guilty of a series of burglaries and other crimes.
An African American teen-ager tries valiantly to keep her family together but sees her world collapse as her younger sisters reject her inept mothering.
The disappearance of the seven-year-old daughter of a Brooklyn family casts suspicion on a juvenile offender from Harlem who has recently come to live with them.
Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride, rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior, created the gulf between her and her best friend.
An African-American teenager tries valiantly to keep her family together, but sees her world collapse as her younger sisters reject her inept mothering.
The attractive, sophisticated young African-Americans gathered at Cape Cod have their own set of economic and color prejudices; but, Sarah, the darkest-skinned, begins to see more clearly the duties and hope of her ancestry.
