The Corner gifts the entire world of Fayette Street having real names and events that are real. The mini series tells the story of children, women and men living amid the drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in his dad Gary McCullough, his mum Fran Boyd, and the lifestyles of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, in addition to other addicts and drug traders swept up at the twin-engine economy of cocaine and heroin.