BMF is inspired by the true story of two brothers, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, from the inner-city streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s, who fostered the most prominent drug-trafficking organization in the U.S., known as the "Black Mafia Family." This series explores the brothers' lives, their family dynamics, and their relationship with the community in an authentic manner that highlights their upbringing in a traditional family unit. Their parents and their spiritual advisor push the brothers to pursue formal education. The tension between Meech's and Terry's blood family and the criminal family they formed to pull themselves out of poverty creates inner conflict as the brothers pursue the ever-elusive American Dream. -- Adapted from container.