Nathan Walker is a young man from Chicago Heights, Illinois, which is located several miles south of downtown Chicago. Every day, he finds himself intertwined in the lives of his neighbors. They are courteous, friendly, and down-to-earth individuals. However, individuals in any community have private interests that their neighbors are unaware of. Each has a dark secret, a broken dream, a fiery hope, or a soul-crushing fear. We accompany Nathan as he matures and watch as the layers of this seemingly random collection of regular individuals reveal themselves to be wonderfully human beneath their trained, Christian exteriors.