After the unsolved murder of his father, Michael Goodman, an African-American teenager, struggles into manhood while harvesting the grief of death. Living in a poverty stricken neighborhood, he surrenders his childhood to help Erah, his emotionally dependent mother. Michael's life spiraled downward when his mother marries Lucifen Satain, a coldhearted, wealthy businessman-who preaches a soul can be purchased with a hot meal or a cool million. Satain...