This is no love story or feel-good story, but a life filled with struggle, hardship and depression. In a fight to be seen but often forgotten, growing up with a mother, divorced parents, sister and under the rulership of a grandfather who belittled and tormented. Fighting each day to survive, finding faith with inspiration from great figures in the bible, grounding him to be a great father and husband, educator and a person of substance. Joseph Gutierrez is no politician, titan of business or a celebrity, but a regular Joe, the forgotten son.

This intimate look into Joseph's firs chapter of his life, details life from the age of birth to college bound, Walk or run with Joseph in the discovery of what it means to be young boy, then a young man and into adulthood.