From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes what was intended to be the first installment in a regular television series on New York's bludgeoning hip-hop culture, with a specific focus on graffiti. Funding fell through but the material was just to good be left to languish. Chalfant put together what he had and, like Style Wars, it continues to stand as a document of a culture in blossom.
Zoro es el escritor de graffiti más activo de Nueva York. Después de que su novia lo dejase, ésta empieza a salir con The Union, un grupo de graffiteros que se dedican a pintar por encargo. Ante el nuevo panorama, la prensa y las galerías de arte están interesadas en el mundo del graffiti. Mundo que se encuentra entre la encrucijada de la autenticidad del graffiti ilegal en los trenes y por otro lado, la proyección de los graffiteros en el mundo del arte y las galerías.
Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.
