From emerging storyteller, Aaron Greer, comes a thought-provoking
story about a family's struggle to raise a child in the inner city, where
some get lost and some get grown.
Twelve year-old Eric lives with his mother Rolanda and father Darryl in
a working class neighborhood. Darryl drives a city bus second shift. Rolanda,
who is very pregnant and not feeling well, takes care of her ailing mother
who lives with them.
The story begins when Rolanda discovers that she has forgotten to fill the
prescription for her mother’s new diabetes medicine. Someone must
make the long walk through the neighborhood to the pharmacy that evening,
and the only one who can is Eric.
With his granny’s prescription, insurance card and $22 stuffed in
his sock, Eric starts out on what appears to be a simple errand. Along the
way things become unexpectedly complicated, as he finds himself contending
with the thoughtless demands that adults make of children and with his friends'
risky behaviors.
As night falls we watch Eric struggle to complete his responsibility by
taking actions that seem logical to a good kid on the threshold of adulthood,
but which will in fact bring him to the brink of danger. Meanwhile his mother
waits, worries and questions her decision to send young Eric alone through
the darkening city streets.