Life Is Hot in Cracktown plot
"Be cool. You're so cool. Life is cool in Cracktown."
Four stories that come together about drug addiction, poverty and life at the bottom of society. Manny works as a security guard in a boarding house by day and as a shop assistant in a convenience store at night among hookers and dealers while his wife takes care of their sick child at home. 10-year-old Willy lives with his sister with their mother and her abusive boyfriend. He has to beg to feed him and his sister. Marybeth is a transsexual who works as a prostitute and lives with Benny to whom she is married. They live a pretty normal life but are seen as freaks by everyone. Romeo is in a gang terrorizing the streets with his guilt over his brother's death.