Blade’s celebrity hard rocker father, Rutherford Morrison, is in and out of rehab.  Rutherford is one of  the paparazzi’s favorite subjects, and when he’s not sober, he’s Blade’s worst nightmare.  Blade finds solace with his girlfriend, Chapel and playing soft rock his acoustic guitar.  But when Rutherford crashes Blade’s last minute valedictorian  speech at graduation, it sets a series of events in motion that send Blade on a journey to find out himself. This story is told in Kwame Alexander’s lyrical verse style.