In the huge inner-city housing projects that dot this nation's urban landscape,it's what people pray for. To be free of fear, cleansed of the hopelessness, absolved of the anger that haunts their every waking moment. But within the overcrowded, deteriorating hallways of the Abraham Lincoln Houses it's not easy to forgive, let alone forget the facts that violence is hiding around every corner - perhaps even living under your own roof. Still, life goes on. People try to get by, and in some cases do more than merely survive. These are the stories of some of those people. The ones who seek to change their lives, to break the chains of abuse, of racism and of hatred. The ones who will use any means necessary to escape the Projects, to shatter its uncompromising hold on their lives. And, in the end, these are the stories of those who would tear down The Project's cold, concrete walls, in the belief that only from its ruins can something positive begin to grow.