After getting turned down for a job at a high-end restaurant, Tray stumbles into a position at a chain coffee shop. The twist - it's owned by Wavy, the drug dealer that Tray took the fall for.
Tray is an ex-con who is released from prison for good behavior after serving fifteen years. He returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood to find that it has become gentrified. His ex-girlfriend, Shay, is now married to a white man named Josh and is raising his twin children Amira and Shazad. Tray decides to become a better man and a father with the help of the owner of a halfway house, Mullins, and his cousin Bobby.