Patty Simmons and Michael Duke are high school sweet hearts. They plan to remain together forever or so Michael thinks. Patty has aspirations of being something. She wants to go to college and see the world. However, Patty realizes that Michael will probably get what he wants because she has just found out that she is pregnant. Patty and Michael are sitting at the local hang out when Buddy, a high school dropout punk, decides he wants to hit on Patty. Michael's temper scares anybody who has the unlikelihood to encounter it. Michael proceeds to tell Buddy off but Buddy isn't scared of Michael because he has his friends to back him up. A scuffle ensues and in the confusion and pandemonium Buddy had pulled out a knife and Michael ended up stabbed. Patty is beside herself with grief. Michael dies and he will never know his child. Seventeen years later Mike, Patty and Michael's son, wakes up from a nightmare. Mike is covered in blood. Mike isn't scared to find himself in this state. He has a voice, guardian angel, to soothe him whenever he is scared. Mike remembers bits and pieces of his dream but the thing that stands out the most is he sees his father, Cliff, dead. Mike goes down stairs to find his mother, Patty, asleep on the couch. They both realize Cliff isn't home from work. The doorbell rings and it is Detective Jim Morris. He has come to inform them that Cliff is dead. Cliff is a low life alcoholic with a tendency for beating his wife. Patty had to think fast after Michael died. She didn't want to embarrass her family so she chose Cliff. The investigation of Cliff's murder has many twists and turns. There are four suspects and one of which is Mike. From the moment Jim sees Patty he is in love with her and he won’t let anything happen to her or her son. Jim dares to hope for a future for him and Patty but the voice that Mike hears may have something to say about that.
