Jerome is a ghost.  The unarmed, twelve-year-old boy was shot and killed in a Chicago neighborhood vacant lot by a white police officer.  Now Jerome can only be seen by Sarah Moore, the young daughter of the officer who shot him.  Sarah discovers that her father made some serious mistakes the night Jerome was shot.  Jerome isn’t sure why he keeps hanging around his family, his friend Carlos, and Sarah, but with the help of the ghost of Emmett Till, he will learn what he needs to do to help others.