The Murphy Homes housing development was located in the heart of West Baltimore until the city demolished the homes in 1999. The four buildings fourteen stories tall were once notorious for crime, drugs, and murder. Most of the unemployed, crack-addicted residents that lived at Murphy Homes were trapped in a life of crime with nowhere to go, but the graveyard. Their children's lives were destroyed.
Born to a crack-addicted mother, young Shaun Jones had to learn how to survive alone in Murphy Homes or die.