Detroit's auto plants once meant steady wages and a path into the middle class for generations of Black workers. This film traces what happened when those jobs disappeared: assembly lines shuttered, neighborhoods hollowed out, and a drug trade moved in to fill the economic vacuum the factories left behind. Interviews and archival footage track how heroin and later crack became a functioning, if brutal, replacement economy in a city that had lost its industrial base almost overnight. The film treats the drug trade not as a moral failing dropped from nowhere but as a direct consequence of deindustrialization, following the money and the desperation from the shop floor to the street corner. It is a portrait of a city's collapse told through the economy that grew in its ruins, and a case study in what happens when a place loses its reason for existing and its residents improvise a new one.