Marc Owens, aged seventeen, has been raised by his father, an abusive man who is bitter about the death many years before of his wife at the hands of a black man. Marc's high school life is in turmoil: he is uncertain of the future and has fallen for a Mexican girl who goes to school with him. Frightened of taking her home to meet his father, he sees her secretly--all the while talking about the superiority of Whites. His carefully constructed reality begins to crash as Teresa realizes that he is living a double standard. After Teresa breaks up with him he joins a White Supremist group that teaches hate and prejudice, and tumbles closer and closer to a life of crime. His only hope is to claw his way back to acceptance...