![]() After leaving the fair, the friction between Chicago and Iesha explodes when Iesha informs Chicago she has been seeing someone on the side and he physically attacks her. Next, they stop at an African Cultural Fair where Lucky and Justice grow closer as they discuss their lives. The second stop is a beach where each of the four characters contemplate their separate situations in internal monologues. Iesha throws up and cries on Justice and apologizes to her. Iesha and Chicago argue in the mailtruck until Justice talks to Iesha about her behavior with alcohol. Iesha openly flirts with other men at the barbecue, while Chicago broods watching her behavior. Here it becomes apparent (although there were ample hints earlier) that Iesha and Chicago's relationship is troubled. The foursome make a couple of detours, the first being a family reunion barbecue they see signs for on the road. Initially they argue, but over the course of the film soften towards each other as they discover their similarities. Unbeknownst to Justice, Lucky is also on the trip, and she will now be sharing a postal van with him and their two mutual friends. Justice warily accepts, mainly because she has to go to Oakland for a hair show, and her car stops working at the last minute. ![]() Justice's friend Iesha (Regina King) manages to talk Justice into taking a road trip to Oakland with Iesha's boyfriend, Chicago (Joe Torry), Lucky's co-worker at the post office. Lucky dreams of a professional career in music and shows considerable promise, but he insists his cousin is the true talent. ![]() He had to forcibly remove her from the care of her mother, Angel, a crack addict who was using drugs and having sex with her drug dealer while leaving the child unattended in the apartment. Lucky has also had tragedy in his life: his main focus is caring for his young daughter Keisha. She rebuffs his advances with the help of her female boss the two women pretend to be lesbians and mock Lucky with their "relationship". Justice is at the hair salon working one day when a young postal clerk named Lucky (Tupac Shakur) comes in and begins flirting with her. Justice is a talented poet, she reads many of her poems throughout the course of the film, both to other characters and in voice over. She spends the majority of her time in the house she inherited from her grandmother, with her cat White Boy, only going out to her job at a local hair salon. After the shooting death of her boyfriend Markell (Q-Tip), Justice falls into a deep depression. She was named Justice by her late mother, who gave birth to her while attending law school. Justice (Janet Jackson) is a young woman living in South Central, Los Angeles.
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