Seventeen-year-old Haley Conaway of Los Angeles, California is getting dumped by her magician boyfriend, Trevor. Undoubtingly, Haley has the utmost support from her family, friends, and a bright future ahead, but what seemed sure in Trevor is breaking everything else down. Across the same café sits a weary man by the name of Rakeem Sahab, an immigrant and post office employee from Pakistan, seeking refuge from his undesirable gang-affiliated life led by his older brother, Bhar. Rakeem doesn't know if this home in America will be his home forever since the September 11 attacks on The World Trade Center, but one thing is inevitable between the two. Neither wants to go back to the world outside and face the continuing challenges of starting over. In a tragic turn of events from a brutal kidnapping, two unlikely roads intertwine inspiring Rakeem and Haley's friendship by the basis and influence of political, racial, and discriminatory divide. As the two come together to move forward with devoted unity, the most natural part is showing love to one another, but the hard part is how to get rest of the world to understand the same.