Legacy / a Cinemax Reel Life [and] Nomadic Pictures present a film by Tod Lending ; director, producer, writer, Tod Lending.

"The unflinching chronicle of one family's triumphant journey out of poverty and despair. Touchingly narrated by Nickcole Collins, a teenage gire wise beyond her years, the film follows the Collins family over five years as they slowly pull themselves out of the haze of poverty, drug addiction, and violence that plagues their public houseing project in Chicago. Stereotype-busting and open-minded, Legacy paints the American dream in honest colors to rousing effect. Improbably, the senseless killing of 14-year-old Terrell, a straight-A student and role model against impossible odds [moves] Nickcole's mother, a high school dropout, in fits and starts to find a meaningful job. Aunt Wanda, mother of Terrell and longtime crack addict, enrolls herself in a drug treatment program. Nickcole catapults herself out of the inner-city trap to a college degree and a comfortable life. It's impossible not to cheer for these incredible real-life heroes as they cry and laugh, stumble and get back up again on their way to something better"--Container.

Chronicle of one family's triumphant journey out of despair. Follow the Collins family over five years as they slowly pull themselves out of a haze of poverty, drug addiction, and violence.

The Collins family including Alaissa, Wanda, Nickcole, Marquis and Dorothy Jackson. Nickcole Collins narrates.