Fifteen-year-old Red's troubled relationship with his father, a policeman in a small Canadian community, acquires a new perspective when his best friend's long-missing mother suddenly returns.
Fifteen-year-old Red's troubled relationship with his father, a policeman in a small Canadian community, acquires a new perspective when his best friend's long-missing mother suddenly returns.
Still suffering from his mother's death and the subsequent alcoholism and estrangement of his father, a rodeo clown, Shane hopes things will be better when they go to live on a farm in Alberta.
Sixteen-year-old Layne faces a dangerous challenge when he defies his mother and enters himself in a bull riding contest--the same rodeo event in which his father was killed.