An exploration of crime and redemption as told through the intertwined lives of three people: the author, her adoptive, incarcerated brother Kakamia, and his jail-mate, Irish mobster James 'Jimmy Mac' McElroy. Author Walidah Imarisha, a sexual assault survivor, tells a moving tail that both complicates and clarifies the question of how our society should deal with people who have commited unimaginable acts.