Inside the walls of a modern-day Roman Catholic monastery, 21-year-old Brother Cody Johnson is doing his best to fit in, even though something within him is trying desperately to come out. Tackling a variety of issues from sexuality and depression to temptation and young love, Outside In is filled with twists and turns throughout. Never before has the struggle between sacred vows and secret desires of the flesh been so personally felt or so viscerally explored. While lying in bed one night, Brother Cody hears a sound he never in a million years expected inside a monastery. Two other monks have just come back from a walk, and they're whispering in the doorway right across the hall. Silence falls, followed soon afterward by the unmistakable sound of a soft, gentle kiss. Cody is stunned at what he's certain he just heard. It awakens something deep inside him, a part of him he thought he had vowed away forever.