 The film follows six teenage high school seniors who hold a wounded police officer hostage and barricade themselves inside the school.In an urban Queens high school students, senior Lester DeWitt (Usher Raymond), who lost his father, his best friend, 15-year-old artist Julius Zacharias 'Ziggy' Malone (Robert Ri'chard), hard-working student Stephanie Williams (Rosario Dawson), criminal Rodney J. Templeton (Fredro Starr), rebellious pregnant Lynn Sabatini (Sara Gilbert), and hustler Robert Tremont a.k.a.