Gentle and broken, a homeless man is coerced by two teens to fight other men on video for cash but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

A heart-wrenching yet tender drama about a homeless man with a heart of gold, Willy, , who struggles on the gritty streets of the skid row district of Downtown Los Angeles. Willy's better intentions are exploited by a privileged college kid who entices the homeless by offering money in exchange for savage street fighting. Willy is dubbed the "Cardboard Boxer" but when Willy refuses to fight a defenseless elderly man, the thing that matters the most to him is taken away and destroyed.