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English: What if you could start all over again with the conviction to follow your heart and fight for something bigger than you. And win.

Des Campbell is the smart but insecure son of an extraordinarily successful yet bigoted attorney who pushes Des into following in his footsteps. Des regularly escapes to the tracks where he finds solace in the street art of a tagger named Brando who creates stunning murals on the boxcars. After his high school crush, Tessa Rhodes, is brutally murdered near the tracks, Des enters Harvard Law brokenhearted and unsure of himself. Later, he emerges stronger, more confident, and ready to face the demons he left behind.

He returns to his home in Charleston at the prodding of his trusted mentor, John Taylor, who heads Harvard’s School of Law. A secret meeting takes place at the public defender’s office whereby Des is inspired by the no B.S. style of the white-haired attorney with a heart for the discriminated. Des rebels against his father and decides to work for the public defender. The duo set out to free a young Negro, Brandon Michael Thompson, currently on his fourth of a forty-year sentence whom Des later learns has been convicted of the murder of Tessa Rhodes.

Along the way, Des struggles with his feelings for Tessa and lingering doubts as to Brandon’s innocence. After a brief confrontation, he befriends a Negro detective with a chip on his shoulder who reluctantly helps solve the murder. Des accidentally discovers Brandon and Brando are one in the same which ultimately proves his innocence. The real killer is someone closer than you think. After a long battle, Brandon is exonerated. The two men form a friendship, both freed from their dark pasts.