Have you ever tried to make a difference "to just that one?" Have you ever lent your hand, your heart, to one in need? Where you successful? Did you turn someone's whole life around and help place them on a road of recovery? Was it worth it, in the end?
What if the journey you create, by putting yourself out there for another human being, fully open and totally exposed, takes you someplace you're not sure you want to go? What then? Where can you go from there? Where should you go?
Johnny Tanis, the son of a milkman, finds himself swept along a rolling tide he cannot hope to stop, once his father takes that step, that leap of faith in the dark of night, to help another family in desperate need. Johnny discovers not only what it means to be a real part of his society, to be someone who can make a difference, but also learns that every action has a reaction, and that sometimes that reaction will bring pain and dispair, right to your very own doorstep. Johnny learns that, once set into motion, the world is an awfully hard thing to stop.
There are things you can do; there are things we all must do, and yet we run the risk of forever changing our safe little world whenever we put ourselves out there for another human being. There is a price to pay, even when we try to do good. The trick will always be...can we learn from what we do?
It is the summer of 1968 in New Jersey and the race riots that everyone had feared for months are now a brewing cauldren of anger and distrust, ready to boil over and burn those who get too close. The world seems off-kilter, ready to explode and there's trouble at the bottom of the hill....
