Time is running out for a young drug dealer whose world spins out of control when he is caught between a homicide detective’s frenzied pursuit and a narcotics kingpin bent on protecting his interests at any cost. Against this setting, traditional values and the allure of the street collide as the upstanding citizens of the projects do constant battle with the clockers (slang: the lowest level of drug dealer) who, to the impressionable children of the neighborhood, are the very vision of success.