Pearl knows if she doesn't get back into treatment that they will take away her child, so she calls from outside the crackhouse and tries to talk her way back into a program that she has run away from in the past.
Pearl smokes crack with her pregnant girlfriend and her boyfriend who is afflicted with cancer in his face. The both of them grant him sexual favors in return for drugs.
The depression that comes from not being high is much deeper than the height of the high and contributes to the crack addicts need to be constantly high to feel good. Pearl sits in her living room and cries for an apparent reason.
Pearl W. became a crack addict after a family moved into the neighborhood and gave it to her for free. Within a week they were selling it to support her steady habit. She gave birth to an attention-deficit child during her addiction. Pearl…