After losing her mother, Clay thinks nothing good will ever happen to her again and her life is over. Her only friend, Mimi, and her father are both drug addicts. Clay is lost and hopeless. She decides to do one last thing-go to an HIV support group at a local church. There, she meets the Reverend and a group of people around her age who understand what it's like to live with HIV. Each member of the group has their own struggles, but they are creative, make her feel like she belongs, and encourage her to be what she wants to be. They give her hope for a future. But her old life doesn't want to let go just yet; the one promise she made her dying mother stands in her way.

Clay wants more than anything to break her promise and live the life she is meant to live. Will Clay let her promise hold her back, tied to dysfunction? In Meet Clay Brown, Clay faces her struggle to finally accept herself as she is and understand she is worthy of unconditional love.