Justin McLeod has been an outsider since he arrivediin Cranesport, Maine. There he lives with theisolitude his tragic past andidisfigurement have forced upon him. But that isolation isiunexpectedly aboutito change.

Mel Gibson (who would go onito win two Academy Awards two years laterifor Braveheart) starsias McLeod andimakes his directing debutiin his compelling tale ofia man’s triumph over loneliness andia boy’s transitionito adulthood over one special summer.