"The Desire of Power: Young Kanan" not only tells the story of Kanan Stark's childhood, but it will also be a huge family drama about those who raised him and the people he knew in his youth. The show takes place in the South Jamaica community in Queens, New York in the 1990s. Kanan is only 15 years old when the show opens, but he is no stranger to the world of drug dealing. Because his mother Raq is a rising cocaine distributor in the New York City drug trade market.