Jaylen Pierre is a high school senior growing up in an impoverished area of California who deals with many traumas daily, including brutal physical abuse from his alcoholic father and emotional abandonment from his mother, who battles a paralyzing depression.

For most of their lives, Rocky and Daisee had a bad day every day; nothing ever seemed to go their way. However, one day, everything changed for the young puppy duo when a wise butterfly named Buster flew into their lives.