For Colored Girls 2010

Kelly, a social worker, visits Tangie’s brownstone to check on Crystal’s children but is kicked out by Crystal’s alcoholic boyfriend, Beau Willie. Meanwhile, Juanita ends her affair with Frank, and Alice, Tangie’s mother, asks Tangie for money but is refused. Gilda, the nosy neighbor, informs Kelly about Crystal’s situation and admits to calling her.

Alice encounters Yasmine, who is boasting to the girls in her dance class about Bill, a man she met. A dance student, Nyla, talks with the girls about her graduation night and later begins to vomit.

Juanita waits in Jo’s office to seek funding for a women’s health non-profit but is dismissed. Kelly learns from her gynecologist that she cannot have children due to an untreated STD. Juanita, rejects Frank’s plea for forgiveness.

Crystal urges Beau Willie to stop drinking, but he only wants to marry her for welfare benefits. Jo leaves a voicemail asking her husband, Carl, to call her back.

Yasmine and Bill enjoy a date, reminiscing about her love for Latin dance. At home, Alice gives Nyla a small amount of money, thinking it’s for college. Nyla visits Tangie for more money but is confronted about being pregnant, which she denies. Tangie taunts her and directing Nyla to an abortionist.

Jo waits for Carl, who was arrested earlier. Donald returns home, and Kelly reveals that she contracted an STD from a man she and two friends had dated.

Carl apologizes to Jo by getting opera tickets, though he dislikes the opera, and is clearly attracted to other men. Tangie tries to pay for Nyla’s college fees, but Yasmine reveals the dance class is free. Tangie realizes Nyla visited a drunken abortionist. Meanwhile, Yasmine invites Bill to dinner, but he assaults her.

At the opera, Jo watches as her husband cruises another man. Crystal, on her way home with Jo, is beaten by Beau Willie, who accuses her of infidelity. He then dangles their children from a window, dropping them to their deaths. Gilda screams for help, while Jo, Juanita, and others witness the tragedy.

At the hospital, Donald informs Yasmine that pressing rape charges will be difficult. At the same hospital, Alice comes in search of Nyla, who is being interrogated by Renee and Kelly. After being informed of the situation and recognizing Crystal, Kelly becomes visibly upset.

Alice confronts Tangie in her apartment, they reveal to each other that Tangie was assaulted by her grandfather, Alice’s father, causing Alice to take her to the abortionist. Alice reveals that her father took her virginity and was given to a white man at fifteen to have children. After kicking Alice out of her apartment, Gilda comes into her house and gives her a detailed account of Tangie’s exploits. Tangie believes that Gilda has been snooping again through the wall, but Gilda reveals that she was once like Tangie.

Carl returns home to find Jo distraught and reveals what happened with Crystal. Alice and Nyla return home, Alice insists Nyla pray for forgiveness and tries to exorcise, causing Nyla to flee. Nyla goes to Yasmine’s apartment, but Yasmine doesn’t answer the door.

Kelly is waiting outside the brownstone as Crystal is scrubbing away her children’s blood from the sidewalk. Nyla passes by and Kelly takes her into Crystal’s apartment to wash her up. Hearing Tangie bring in yet another suitor to her apartment, Nyla confronts her. Tangie kicks her suitor out after he asks her to invite Nyla for a threesome. Tangie and Nyla hash out their problems.

Yasmine is practicing an interpretive dance as Kelly discovers that Crystal has swallowed an entire bottle of pills. Crystal is taken to the hospital as Yasmine is visited by Donald, who has informed her that Bill has been murdered after attempting to rape another woman. She goes into the morgue to look at his body one last time, before slapping him and then leaving.