What happens when you put your all into someone just for them to betray you in the worst way? Ebony finds the answer when she catches her boyfriend, Ques, in bed with a stripper that's well known in Newark. Fed up with all the things that he has taken her through, she decides to move on, only focusing on herself. Other than her grandmother, the only person Ebony can trust is her best friend, Kesha. Or can she? Sometimes those that are the closest to you are the ones you need to watch.
Meet Edrise, a well known barber in the city of Newark who's past isn't so clean. There's a saying that you can take a person out the hood, but you can't take the hood out of a person and this is true when it comes to Edrise. No matter how hard he tries to stay clean, the betrayal and crime of the grimy Brick City streets sucks him back in. When Edrise and Ebony cross paths, will they be able to find happiness in the midst of their past drama surrounding them or will they be destroyed by the grit that comes with living in Brick City?