Un prisionero se convierte en abogado y lucha por revertir la cadena perpetua que sirve por un crimen que no cometió.

La historia de como un grupo de criminales de poca monta intentó dar el golpe más grande de la historia de Estados Unidos en 1975.

In the late 80s/ early 1990s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.