In shock, O-Dog watches on as Caine lays bloody in Stacy's arms, seeing flashbacks of the events that led to this final moment. Ilena's cousin and a gang of hooded gunmen execute a drive-by shooting on the house, exchanging gunfire with O-Dog, killing Sharif and fatally wounding Caine, who had drawn their fire to protect Anthony. This proves to be the last straw for Caine's grandparents who promptly throw him out of their house, despite his pleading.ĭays later, at Ronnie's house, Caine, Ronnie, Stacy and Sharif are preparing to leave LA. Later that day, Caine and O-Dog are approached by a cousin of Ilena and after a fistfight, O-Dog stops Caine from stomping the man to death. Pernell also entreats Caine to take care for his son Anthony. Ronnie and Caine visit Pernell in prison, who gives the new couple his blessing, contrary to Caine's assumption that Pernell would be upset. Soon thereafter, Chauncy, harboring a grudge against Caine, turns over a copy of the store surveillance tape to the police, who begin scouring the area for Caine and O-Dog, now wanted in the killings. Later that night, Caine gets a phone call from Ilena, informing him that she is pregnant with his baby. Afterward, Chauncy tries to force himself on Ronnie and Caine, using O-Dog's Glock 19, savagely pistol-whips Chauncy. A week later, at a going away party for Ronnie, Sharif and Stacy (moving to Kansas for college), Caine tells Ronnie that he will accompany her to Atlanta and the two consumate their relationship. Ronnie visits Caine there, telling him that she has found a job in Atlanta and invites him to come with her. However, the local gang showed sympathy and take the wounded youths to a hospital. One night, Caine and Sharif are pulled over and assaulted by racist police and left in Mexican gang territory to die. Once released, Caine ups his game, buys a new car from a chop shop and robs a local hustler for his Dayton wheels, jewelry, and stereo.Ĭaine begins to enjoy his new hustler life with his crew, meeting a local girl named Ilena and shirking all ambition and responsibilities. Although, the authorities lessen the charge to joyriding a detective attempts to link Caine to the store killings by matching fingerprints from the dropped beer bottle. As a minor, O-Dog is released with a warning Caine, however, being the age of eighteen, is charged as an adult. Weeks later, Caine and O-Dog are hired by a local hood Chauncy, for a car insurance scheme but are caught in the process and arrested by Police. A week later, O-Dog informs Caine that he has learned the identity of the jackers and with A-Wax in tow, murder the assailants, exacting revenge. The robbers murder Harold and shoot Caine in the shoulder who is rushed to the hospital afterwards by O-Dog and their crew. Later, while en route to meet the others at a local fastfood eatery, Harold and Caine are carjacked. Cain reprimands O-Dog about showing the store video tape to entertain neighborhood friends. That night, Caine and his cousin Harold go to a graduation party where they meet up with O-Dog, an old school street thug called A-Wax, the muslim Sharif and highschool football star Stacy. During a voice-over, he explains that he deals drugs to financially support himself and help Ronnie, while living with his grandparents in the LA housing project Jordan Downs. Years later, on the last day of high school, Caine visits Pernell's ex-girlfriend Ronnie and her son Anthony, who congratulate him on graduating while Pernell is now serving life in prison without parole. Pernell, a local hood and friend of Caine's father, served as his would-be mentor. A short flashback shows a night in the life of young Cain and his parents, filled with partying, drinking, drugs and murder that hint at both of their eventual deaths. The titles flash over stock footage of the Watts riots in the 60's and the dawn of of the drug age in South Central Los Angeles during the 70's. Frightened, Caine drops his bottle and beckons his friend to flee the scene as Police sirens advance nearby. He then kills the wife and takes the store video surveillance tape. An argument ensues and while Caine drinks his beer, the now irritated O-Dog shoots, kills and robs the storekeeper.
The couple repeatedly exhorts them to pay and leave, even as O-Dog and Caine approach the register to do so. The film begins with a cold open as Caine and his best friend O-Dog enter a local store to buy two bottles of malt liquor as the Korean storekeeper and his wife eye them suspiciously.
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