Above-average IQ, a brother completely different from him, a family who wants the best for his pupil. These are the principal points from the life of Michael Johnes, a black guy from Harlem, during the '90s. Michael succeeds to be admitted in one of the best public High School in NYC, everything seems to go well, until the last year of school, when everything collapses in his head. Lot of time later, someone, from his childhood, with twenty years of researches, will avenge him, closing the "Circle of Life".