Idealist Brandon seeks to "do good" with his college degree while evading a horrible truth about his past. His wild friends and traditional family don't offer the answers he wants to hear. So he joins groups of differing ideologies, each with appealing thoughts but unsettling actions. When his hard fight for a job finally pays off, his horrible truth emerges in the form of an evil adversary, who he must face to decide what "do good" really means.