Rosco Chapworth is a 12 year old genius who lives in the largest public housing in America: The Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago's Southside. He is a student In Dr. Emiel Hambolin's biology class at DuSable High School.. Things start to get chaotic once the teacher learns that Rosco Chapworth is using his biology animals as a petri dish to create mutations as he alters the myostatin gene in the lab animals to create an army of mega- mutant creatures to revenge his fathers death.