Menace II Society

Caine, a young African American from the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, whose father was a drug dealer and whose mother was an addict, lives with his maternal grandparents, who try to instill in him the good values his parents couldn't give him. But he remains in the ghetto, which leads him to hang out with other young men, including a terrible influence, his best friend O-Dog. Violence surrounds him, and he will have to find an existential motivation to escape that “hell.” The girl he likes was the girlfriend of his father figure (sentenced to life in prison), and she may be the spark that helps him escape and start over from scratch…