新奥尔良飓风使两个人的生活发生了巨大变化。曾经叱咤风云身为黑帮老大的杰，在失去了一切后，如今只能在连锁店里做一个卑微的收银员；而成绩很差的穷孩子肖恩，现在却成为了一名作家。两个人的命运因为飓风产生了交集

Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.