The story begins with three gang members sitting in the backyard of the oldest members grandmothers back yard. While drinking talking about the drive bye that they had done earlier, the grandmother looks out the window. As shes washing dishes, starts praying that God helps her grandson to be a man and stop gang banging. Lighting strikes after she finishes praying, when she looks out the window again they are gone, but the bottles of beer are still there. When they wake up they are in a time and place they never could've imagened. Here begins their adventure or tragedy, you choose. They are now in 1855 Mississippi!!!!!! Trying to survive another day. This leads them to see how hard those people lived and survived.