Juanita is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be young, gifted, and gay. Then a chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita's and Scooter's lives in way they could never have imagined. There is Conan, a hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita nad his guilt over his brother's death; and Jorge, an unscrupulous bad boy thug who has no problem using what he's got to get what he wants, until he comes dangerously close to getting scorched by his own flames....
