Fourteen-year-old Joey is a member of a street gang that rips off old people. This is how Joey supports his grandmother. The gang is run by a tough young girl named Red. She says that the gang makes each its members "something." Apart from the gang, she says, they're "nothing." When Joey's grandmother dies and he meets several of the old people he has helped victimize, he says the agony he has caused. He starts warned the old people when they are about to be robbed. This infuriates Red. Caught helping the old people, Joey is beaten up by his own gang. But in the process, he discovers he is someone of importance apart from the gang. He also discovers he has a new gang-the old people who move in to protect him.