After Brendan King's life spiraled to rock bottom, the teen found hope in a new relationship with Christ while serving time in a juvenile penitentiary. Recently released from prison, Brendan finds solace in the foster home of a couple struggling with suppressed grief. As the city-bred teen enrolls at a suburban high school, he finds support from a group of believers. Yet the bonds of his old way of life - and the gang that wants to know where he hid...

Jim Stark, the teenage son of a well-to-do family, is overcome by loneliness, frustration, and anger, which leads to violence when he seeks approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums.