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The setting is Flint, Michigan. A town infamous for poverty and crime. At the centre of this story are two sisters. Claressa is older than Briana by eighteen months. Like most people in Flint, the two girls grew up tough. Their dad was in jail for the first half of their lives. Their mother battles with substance abuse. In a sad sense, a typical Flint upbringing. Except for one difference. When she was eleven, Claressa went to the local boxing gym and started training. Nine years later, she is the first woman to win the Gold Medal in Women's Boxing at the Olympics. Now Claressa is twenty and is training to go back to the Olympics in 2016. She is moving away from Flint to focus on her career. Through boxing, Claressa found a way out of Flint. On the other hand, Briana is stuck in Flint. Briana is Claressa without boxing. Trouble just finds her. Fights. Drugs. Sex. She never finished high school and she is raising her two-year old son while his father is in jail. But Briana is no martyr. And she's not pitiful. She's tough, charismatic and street-wise.

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