Malik has never had it easy. When he was seven years old, he witnessed his mother’s possible death when he walked into a situation he didn’t understand. Ten years later, after being shuffled around to multiple foster homes, he’s now emancipated and aims to remove his little brother, Taye. In the process, he finds himself approached by a stranger who claims to have knowledge of Malik,his unknown family and his past while being able to care for Taye’s medical needs.

Nathan is an 11 year old boy who lives in Arizona. At an attempt to avoid his father, well his father’s girlfriend really, while his mom travels for work, Nathan convinces his parents to let him stay with him grandmother in her mobil home where she lives during the summer breaks from teaching the Navajo language in college.