Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

Andrew Orenstein
Lance Crouther
Frank Sebastiano
Courtney Lilly
Felicia D. Henderson
Jerry Levine
Chris Rock
Marcus Miller