Significant Non-Happenings on Sugar-Hill

Whitney, a young African-American girl, struggles to reconcile her own ambitions with the grim realities of her existence. She roams the darkening streets of Harlem in a last ditch attempt to realize her dreams. The film explores the idea of individual potential versus societal circumstance. Confronted with a host of characters made cliche by their surroundings, an atmosphere of drugs and sleazy money, Whitney battles to create her own destiny or fall into the abyss of conformity that surrounds her.