Synopsis:
Teenager Jimmy Donovan struggles to survive in houselod with a drug-addicted mother, and six-year old sister, Angie, by selling marijuana in a diverse, suburban neighborgood. After his mother is hospitalized. Jimmy makes the difficult dicision to begin pushing heroin in order to make the tuition payments for Angie, which will keep her in a safer, private school. This new business venture sparks some problems and sends Jimmy and his friends into a spiral of bad events. His struggle to stay afloat is filled with numerous problems, all of which surround his world in what he calls "kryptonite."