The Corner gifts the entire universe of Fayette Street having real events and real names. The miniseries tells the true story of women men and kids living amid West Baltimore's open minded drug markets. It chronicles a year in his mother Fran Boyd, the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, and his father Gary McCullough, in addition to other addicts and drug retailers caught up in heroin and cocaine's twin-engine market.