马尔科姆(沙美克·摩尔 Shameik Moore 饰)是一位决心不走寻常路的高中生,形式高调又异常古怪的他常常会成为众人眼中的怪胎,因此受到欺负和孤立,日子很不好过。对于马尔科姆来说,能够平平安安的度过高中的最后一个学年就是自己最大的心愿。 马尔科姆偷偷喜欢着名为纳吉亚(佐伊·克拉维兹 Zoe Kravitz 饰)的美丽姑娘,然而他甚至自己配不上对方,只能将这份感情埋藏在心底。某日,马尔科姆得知纳吉亚将要前往一个毒贩所举办的派对上游玩,于是亦紧随其后,哪知道却在误打误撞之中被卷入了毒品交易的黑暗漩涡中无法自拔,不仅惹上了杀身之祸,还不得不过起了东躲西藏的颠沛生活。A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. Malcolm is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled with gangsters and drug dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT. His dream is to attend Harvard. A chance invitation to a big underground party leads Malcolm and his friends into an "only in Los Angeles" gritty adventure filled with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he'll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.