Tanita Brown's life in Bushwick Brooklyn doesn't have any slack. Still a teenager, she helps her grandmother raise her younger brother and provides shelter to recently evicted neighbours. When Tanita has the chance to speak about poverty in the United Nations she's excited.... but even more overwhelmed, especially when she meets the disparaging Blandine Dulavoir, a UN Diplomat. Blandine runs her Manhattan life like a well oiled machine - until meeting Tanita and the volunteers who run children's art workshops on the sidewalk. When Ahmed travels from Tanzania to New York, both Tanita and Blandine are pushed to re-examine the way they look at the World.