Christian Baker, a young New York journalist from The Chronicle, gets assigned to a social story about the disappearance of Monique Watson, a 12 years old African-American girl from Brooklyn. Trying to get the assignment behind, he quickly and poorly researches the story and goes with the first lead. This brings down a series of pains. Christian with guilt decides to finally do his work properly finding himself in a race against time to help the family find the girl

After a big-time bust, down-and-out drug dealer Vincent has 24 hours to pay back his ruthless supplier. With the help of his buttoned-up, recently laid-off friend Josh and Josh's cash-strapped girlfriend Holly, Vincent sets out to rip off a deadly drug dealer and free himself from his crushing debts. Little do they know, they're already way in over their heads.