A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.

Trinity Michaels possesses the ability to dream walk, a power that may be her destruction when Rafe Stevens, an escaped murderer who possesses a similar power, comes after her in her dreams, where death is all too real.

Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an Afro-American, in a murder.