“The Hate U Give” ni filime y’amarangamutima ishingiye ku gitabo cya Angie Thomas, ikurikira inkuru y’umukobwa w’umwirabura witwa Starr Carter, uharanira ubutabera nyuma yo kwicirwa inshuti ye na polisi. Starr Carter ni umukobwa w’imyaka 16 uba mu gace kitwa Garden Heights, ariko yiga mu ishuri ry’abazungu b’ibyubahiro ryitwa Williamson Prep. Aho ari hose, agomba guhindura imyitwarire (code-switching) kugira ngo ahuze n’abo bari kumwe.

Igihe yitabiriye ibirori mu gace k’iwabo, ahura na Khalil Harris, inshuti ye y’akabwana. Nyuma y’aho, Khalil amutwara mu modoka, ariko bahagarikwa na polisi. Umupolisi w’umuzungu ararasira Khalil imbere ya Starr, amwica atamufiteho intwaro. Nyuma y’urupfu rwa Khalil, Starr ahura n’igitutu:

•  Cyaturutse ku muryango we, ishuri, n’abaturanyi

•  Abashaka kumucecekesha cyangwa kumukoresha mu nyungu zabo

•  Abashaka ko avuga ukuri ku byabaye

Starr aratekereza ku “THUG LIFE” – amagambo ya Tupac avuga ko “The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s Everybody”, bisobanura ko urwango rutangirwa mu buto rwangiza sosiyete yose.