Bang - a summer walk is shattered when BJ's mother is shot in the street. After she is left paralyzed, twelve year old BJ must stand alone against the indifference of the legal system, while riddled with guilt, unable to find solace within his own family, and always with the fear that he could be shot at any moment. In this thrilling debut that spans the hospital, the courtroom, and the home, Jodi Fego Bolcar examines the evils of gun violence through the unbiased eyes of a child.