When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he�s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he�s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch�s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people�s conflicting agendas collide.