Arden Landry wakes up in an alley believing he is fifteen years old, only to discover he is twenty-four and missing nine years of his life. His older brother, Ayven, has spent six years blaming Arden for the choices that brought dangerous people to their family's door. But the Arden who comes home bleeding and terrified remembers none of it. He only remembers loving Ayven, trusting him, and looking up to him. As a police investigation unfolds and secrets from Arden's missing years resurface, the brothers are forced into an impossible question: how do you forgive someone who does not remember becoming the person who hurt you? Before I Became Him is an emotional brotherhood drama about grief, memory, blame, protection, and finding a way forward when the past belongs to a stranger wearing your face.