Life is a day-to-day struggle for 15-year-old Trife. With negative influences coming from his school friends and a powerful but dangerous uncle, Trife is torn between what knows is right and a life of guns, drugs and violence that he has come to know only too well. When a classmate´s suicide forces the school to close, Trife and his mates, Moony and Jay, embrace the opportunity to shop, get high, get laid and party. Kidulthood paints a fairly bleak picture of a world where sex is currency, drugs are easy, and violence is a way of life. A captivating story which follows Trife as a young boy trying to escape his circumstances and not end up a victim.