Jared Chandler brings himself out of a self-imposed two-year isolation in order to face his naivety. Bi-racial and raised fatherless in the inner city, Jared found comfort in reading books and watching television as an escape from prejudice. While realizing his homosexuality in his adolescence, he encounters his first love and the experience of a broken heart. Then a tragic event leads Jared to leave his childhood in the past to seek love, acceptance and to realize his dream of working in television.

Through the years of discovery and disappointment, Jared and his friends, Billy Simpson, Monica Hicks, Randy Gardner and Stephena Parker, form a surrogate family that lean on each other with love and a strong bond. They inspire him to embrace the true meaning of love and family - coming face to face with his ingenuous perspectives of his life, just before he finds himself dating ex-Marine/artist Kent Robertson, who had to settle with his own past.

From the ghettos of Washington, D.C. in the 1960s to the offices of a television production company in Los Angeles during the 1990s, Jared is forced to confront himself as he reflects upon his parents and the impact their lives have had on him.