I was expecting a more bureaucratic movie about fighting the system, but it was just a slow drama of a poor black woman deciding if she should give up her baby for adoption.

Excellent debut film filled with the urban poetry of being a young African-American woman growing up in the inner-city dealing with the struggles of being a single mother, substance abuse and caught up in the social services system. This is a coming-of-age story for a 24 year old woman named Gia who needed to grow up and accept the utmost responsibility of being a mother to get back what belongs to her while being open to giving what she doesn't want to lose. The cinematography of the Bay Area showed that beauty can be found from housing projects, the shores of San Francisco to redwood forests. If this film doesn't touch your heart you need to check if you have one. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye sung by Bettye Swann and music by Kelsey Lu were essential to the essence of this film. Always keep hope within your heart because hope can heal heartbreak.