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While shooting another documentary on Chicago's infamous housing projects, filmmaker Todd S. Lending was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Instead of his intended subject matter, Lending focuses on 15-year-old honor student Terrell Collins, who was murdered by one of his classmates. Instead of merely eulogizing the boy, the family uses his memory to become closer and pull themselves out of poverty. Terrell's grandmother manages to buy a house, his single mother kicks a drug habit and gets a job, and Nickole -- Terrell's cousin -- gets into college.