In the midst of America's crumbling culture, rife with mass shootings, protest marches and violence aplenty, optimistic Hillary Broome Kiffin is promoting a soon-to-open community center in downtown Sacramento but stunned to become the bull's eye in an anti-urban development movement headed by a bitter old professor, bent on doing whatever it takes to preserve his aging and historic old town neighborhood. As Hillary combats the professor, her young basketball phenom daughter is hit by a series of setbacks forcing Hillary to confront her own resistance to searching for the mother who abandoned her years before. In this city life crime story, the naked truth about local politics, homelessness and gentrification stands out in its visceral impacts.