Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the moving story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers.
Radnja filma je smještena u Detroitu 1980-ih na vrhuncu epidemije kreka i rata protiv droga, Film se temelji na dirljivoj priči o ocu i njegovom sinu tinejdžeru, Ricku Wersheu Jr., koji je postao tajni policijski doušnik, a kasnije diler droge, prije nego što su ga napustili njegovi voditelji.