For Isaac Williams, nothing comes easy.

From his dead-end job to his one-bedroom apartment, life so far has been a steady grind, one challenge after another. But that's about to change. During a routine encounter with a police officer in Oakland, Isaac makes a life-changing realization: He can use gravity to do almost anything. To build or destroy. To lift up or hold in place. To bend, straighten, or break apart.

Isaac is suddenly in command of a power beyond his wildest imagination, the power to reshape the world around him, something that-as a biracial black man from hurricane-ravaged Mississippi-he has struggled to do his entire life. Filled with newfound hope, Isaac immerses himself in the experimentation process: testing his limits, broadening his skill set, and refining his control, all in secret.

But Isaac, a single father of an eleven-year-old daughter, is forced to reveal the extent of his abilities when his daughter is attacked. This sets in motion a series of events that strips him of everything he's worked so hard for: his child, his job, and his home. Pursued relentlessly by the authorities, Isaac is forced to use his abilities in increasingly dramatic and dangerous ways to avoid capture and reunite with his daughter, ultimately learning that the power he wields-though enviable-comes at a deeply unenviable price.