In daze and denial over his devil dog male parent’s decease in conflict, star lacrosse participant Conor Louis Sullivan, ever a rebel and a fire-eater, get down act out in suicidal shipway that have got his mom, Claire, at her wit’s end, but backbreaking preparation in a wilderness lacrosse encampment under the tuition of his dad’s old armed combat brother, Sgt. Major Duke John Wayne, open Conor’s eyes to the true significance of adulthood, sportsmanship and manhood.