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Joyce, her mother, and two sisters are dependent on welfare checks, like her grandmother before them. Too much of their money is wasted supporting no-good boyfriends. Joyce is determined to break the cycle but her sisters are having none of it and Mama Lottie enjoys her toy boys too much to stop writing checks that won't clear. A family of big personalities means big drama!
After taking out a "hood loan" to invest in a janky business a year earlier, Cheddy Ace is faced with repaying the loan to a pair of thugs within 24 hours. Desperate to pay his debt, Cheddy and his nephews try everything to help him raise it.
Three homeboys plead with their wives to let them have one night out to celebrate what they consider an achievement: the end of paying child support.
DeDe is an emotional wreck after her boyfriend, Stix gives her the boot. Once the word gets out that DeDe is single, all available men, including the neighborhood nerd line up for a chance to date her.
When a realtor's celebrity clients start turning up dead, she becomes the suspect in a string of murders that trace back to a buried family secret.
Serial dater Jewel cannot seem to find love, until she starts to fall for the owner of her dry cleaners.
Ema shares with her two best friends the find in her fortune cookie - three fortunes in one and they all read the same - "your path to finding eternal love begins now". She reflects on being in love and believes it's just around the corner. Days go by and she becomes disenchanted as her luck in love isn't panning out. Then one day a certain someone mysteriously appears.
When Kam joins a rival car club, he jeopardizes friendships and the coveted car show title of "Shine King".
