On his first day home, a ranch graduate quickly realizes that to stay clean, he must give up the people closest to him. Jesse deals with several challenges on his first day home from the ranch program, including avoiding his alcoholic mother and drunken friends, all of whom are part of a troubled past he's trying to forget. Michael tries to help a first nations boy deal with being taken from his father.

Police aren't the only ones who suspect a young white supremacistranch resident at the ranch, of murdering a black youth.  A Black detective tries to prove to some youth, that he still cares about the hood.

A broken down car and a need to stay warm has Michael and Eleanor getting closer, in more ways than one. Michael and Eleanor acknowledge their mutual attraction. Meanwhile, a stalker attracted to Eleanor spooks the ranch residents.