A fatherless Black boy was born to a Korean prostitute a decade and-a-half after the Korean War. Left to roam his camptown of South Korea with a pack of homeless kids, (known as "slickyboys"), little "Milton-ah" fights, steals and drinks-- while his mother works long hours.

 

All until the age of 8, when he’s adopted from the country that never claimed him, by a black military family from Texas, The Washingtons.

 

Slickyboy is about the love and the loss of one mother, and a finding of another, with a lifetime of living in between.