A Friendship in Brooklyn Ali has kept himself away from all the trouble and the bad guys in his neighborhood, Brooklyn, for almost sixteen years. Out of fear of his mother, who has a zero-tolerance policy regarding her son's associations. Then an opportunity arises for him to not only be really cool with his friend Noodles and his brother Needles but also to play with the big boys. It's dangerous when you avoid every fight, your friend only has a big mouth but not much else, and the third one is unpredictable due to his Tourette syndrome as soon as he doesn't have his knitting supplies ready.