Inspiring guitarist Rasheed Henderson lives in Harlem in the 50's. He forms a band with his good friends and they get decent pay playing at an Italian restaurant. Rasheed quickly forms a crush on his bosses daughter who he eventually meets and they fall in love. Him and his band then get another job offer from a crazy club owner who's willing to pay them more. They obviously take the generous offer, only they don't know all of the trouble that will come along behind their decision.
Billy is six-teen and has an abusive dad, a quiet mother and no friends. He's always bullied at school for being weird and a nerd. One night after his father yells at him he runs away from home. Ending up at a cemetery he meets a mysterious girl named Allison and they find out they have a lot in-common. He can tell there's something off about her but ignores it at the hopes of finally having a friend. But as their friendship goes on Billy finds there's more to her then he thought.
Four people with very different lives are miserable. Nothing goes right for them and they think it can't get worse, until it does. They go day after day hating their existence wishing to be happy then end up meeting each other. Realizing life's what you make it they all decide to do what they've always wanted.