Starring Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr. and Catherine Keener, this biographiacal drama tells an inspiring true story of how a chance meeting can change a life, as Lopez, a Los Angeles journalist, befriends Ayers, a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. Imagining he can change Ayers' life, Lopez embarks on a quixotic mission to get him off the streets and back to the world of music.