There's a mystery in Roy's family that puzzles him. Nelson his father and Jesse his father's best friend are both successful businessmen, but his uncle has been in prison as long as he can remember. The three young men grew up together. How did they end up in such different places?

Travel with Nelson back to his childhood. There the boys; surrounded by poverty, gang pressure, and a drug infested environment, are encouraged to dare to dream big dreams. Nelson finds inspiration in the stories of some of the world's greatest dreamers—and he discovers that one of those great dreamers was his own father.