Joe and Samantha were the most unlikely childhood friends, growing up in a farm town where black and white didn’t mix. Over time they lost touch. Sam never left the pastures of her rural county, yet found great success as a children’s author. Joe fled to pursue the path of a hero only to lose everything and end up in “The Commons”, a project area of the nearby city. While their choices took them worlds apart, uncontrollable events bring them back together. Sam’s picture perfect life is destroyed when her husband is murdered in “The Commons”. Devastated and lonely, Sam goes to the crime site intent on ending her pain. Instead she becomes the unlikely hero of a little girl whom Joe mentors. While renewing their friendship, Sam and Joe demonstrate their passion to right wrongs in different ways. Joe gives the little he has left to the forgotten children of his neighborhood, while Sam gives up on the good to seek revenge against the man who took her husband.
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