In the huge inner-city housing projects that dot this nation's urban landscape, life goes on. Within each development's cold brick walls, people live and die. Some thrive, while others suffer. Some escape ... while others have no choice but to stay. THE PROJECT is about the inhabitants of one such housing development. Told as a series of interrelated short stories that span a twenty-year period, THE PROJECT introduces readers to a diverse cast of characters whose only common ground is the place they call home -- but that is all that's needed for their lives to intersect in ways that will change them forever. From the child lured into the gang lifestyle by the promise of easy money to the old couple determined to cleanse their building of drugs and their influence, THE PROJECT presents an uncompromising view of a world where individual hopes and dreams must be set aside in the struggle for survival.