"When the odds are against you, sometimes the only bet is yourself." Nick Beam's life couldn't get any worse. He discovers he has been living a lie and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown...

"It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can..." On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.