Fresh

Fresh, a seemingly ordinary twelve year-old Brooklyn boy is actually far more complex than it appears. He is the neighborhood « do-anything », a kid who runs heroin for the charismatic Esteban and steers crack for local runners-whatever pays. Fresh also worries about getting to school on time and staying in the good graces of his aunt Frances, with whom he and his eleven cousins live. Among his many secrets, Fresh travels to Washington Square Park where he receives valuable lessons in speed chess from his father, a near-vagrant genius whom Fresh is forbidden to see. Fresh learns from his father that he must think of his feet, and use all the pieces on the board-even sacrifice his favorites, the ones he loves the most-in order to capture the king and win. As he makes his way through the neighborhood, from the streets to the school to the projects where he lives, events out of his control begin to coalesce in a terrifying web, and Fresh must invent and instigate the ultimate game in order to survive…