Brian Rodgers dreamed of becoming a police officer from the time he was a child. Struggling to earn a college degree, financial pressures forced him from school and into a job as a dispatcher. Contending with supervisors that are prejudiced against him because of his race, Brian suffers a series of career setbacks that frustrate and disillusion him. A long period of unemployment and near despair conclude as Brian finds employment as a uniformed officer in a town where racial discrimination is not a factor and his path to success is secured.