Seventeen-year-old Neil Garvin lives in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father, the local sheriff, for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team and as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his million dollar arm, until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime, and his father, unasked, covers up for him. As the FBI arrives and begins to close in, Neil and his father become locked in a confrontation that will break them apart and set them free. From My So-Called Life to Freaks and Geeks to American Pie the North American teenager and jock culture have been the subject of highly successful entertainment.
