Little Rock, Arkansas becomes the setting for this HBO documentary on street gangs operating in the city in the early 1990s, a period when local law enforcement and residents were grappling with a surge in gang-related violence far from the coastal cities usually associated with it. Also circulated under the title Gang Bangin' in Little Rock, the film puts a camera in front of the young men living inside that world and the officers trying to contain it, without the framing device of a bigger national gang saga to lean on. Sources on the film's specific interviews, footage, and structure are scarce, but its core subject is plain: a mid-sized Southern city dealing with the same gang economy and violence more often pinned on Los Angeles or Chicago, captured on the ground rather than through statistics.