Ezekiel has lived in Detroit on 8mile for most of his life with his mother, brother and his mother's abusive boyfriend. He thinks life is pretty good besides the fact his mother's boyfriend is abusing him and the fact he doesnt know his father. He is doing great in school besides the constant violence at school when he sticks up for his peers and defends them from bullies. Then his mother gets pregnant with a baby. And everything changes.....