For Maddy, her daughter Shante’s sixteenth birthday is both a joyous and terrifying affair. Her goal is to get her daughter through the next year without her falling victim to the “Walker Women’s Curse,” which is getting pregnant at age 16, like both she and her mother, Loretta, did. However, in the midst of celebrating with Shante’s father, Victor, Maddy ends up in bed with Victor, and subsequently pregnant.