A Chance in the World is the unbelievable real life story of Steve, a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience and vision From the day he is five years old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Steve is mentally and physically tortured by Betty his foster mother, Willie her husband and his foster siblings Desperate for a sense of family and belonging, Steve searches for his biological parents, but no one in the system can help him No one can tell him why, with obvious African American features, he has the last name of Klakowicz