Seventeen year old micheal oher, an extremely large, physically imposing black youth, grew up in the projects in Memphis. He no longer lives with his drug addicted mother, but is in foster care when he isn't running away to sleep wherever else he can find.

Now he lives with his uncle for awile and his uncle is a machanic and hes trying to get him into a very hich class christian school which is called  Briarcrest Christian School with his size alot of coaches at that school were looking at him and saying basically we need him to go to our school.