It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.

影片根据真实事件改编，讲述雅丁（里德·米勒 饰）因性取向遭受同学的霸凌而自杀，他的父亲乔·贝尔（马克·沃尔伯格 饰）由此展开了一场穿越美国之旅，在这场旅行中，乔·贝尔随时都能感受到雅丁就在他的身边。