William Devane portrays the families patriarch, while John Schneider plays the sister's protagonist, her cynical civilian brother.

High school senior Michael (the son of a preacher and a Christian) is the new guy in a small town still reeling from a high school basketball star's unforeseen suicide of a year ago.

In this film former world champion bull rider, Tyler Hughes, struggles with his past as he takes on a court-mandated role of mentor to ten-year-old Indiana. The relationships Tulsa forms as he interacts with Indiana changes his life forever.