Andre Carter (Dre) a seventeen year old boy, accidently kills a man and gets away with it. A year later, after feeling guilty and remorse, Dre decides to turn himself into the police, but before doing so, he confesses to the dead man's family. He looks for them and discovers that because of their loss, they've hit hard times so he decides to help them first. He helps the wife get a job, befriends his thirteen year old son and falls in love with his eighteen year old daughter. The questions is... how could he turn himself in now?