College student Jem Ward has left his old life behind him. Determined to make a change, Jem left the world of drugs and gang violence, and buried his guilt deep inside of himself. After the most unspeakable of things happens, Jem is forced to return to his home town and now confront the things he chose to once forget. In doing so, he wraps himself up in an investigation which begins as one to find someone else, but turns into one in which he must find himself.