Introduction / Sypnosis:

The movie starts off with Brenda (Angela Bassett), her son and two daughters rushing out the apartment to get to school and work. Brenda then makes a dash to the bus stop to catch her bus with her best friend Cheryl (Sofia Vergara). Once Brenda makes it on the bus she opens a letter telling her that her father, whom she has never met, has died and the funeral is Saturday and it includes bus tickets for her to get there. Brenda says that she won’t go because she never met him and Cheryl tells her to go because he might have left her some money or a house or something and she should go. Brenda says she’ll think about it.

Brenda and Cheryl make it to work only to find that their job has been shut down that day before anyone could get paid. We then see the ladies sitting outside their apartment looking through the want ads for a new job when Miss Mildred (Irma P. Hall) approaches Brenda for the money she owes for watching her youngest daughter Lena. Brenda informs her that she doesn’t have it and Mrs. Mildred tells her to come and get her daughter at the end of the day and she can no longer watch her anymore.

We then cut to a scene of Brenda’s oldest child Michael (Lance Gross) at his basketball game. After winning the game his mom tells him he needs new shoes since his are falling apart. He jokingly tells her that he told the team they are his lucky shoes and that he doesn’t need any.