Based on real people and true events, Nordeast Boys is a story of two brothers and a best buddy whose lives are forever altered after dramatic encounters with drugs. Rocky starts experimenting with alcohol and drugs at an early age, and by seventeen, his experimentation escalates into heroin addiction. Drafted at the height of the Vietnam war, he gets kicked out of the Army for dubious reasons. He struggles for years before kicking his habit and beginning a twelve year period of sobriety, during which he establishes a Narcotics Anonymous group to help others battle their addictions. Rocky...

A colorful, larger-than-life character, Dad hailed from a time and place where fighting and strength were measures of a man's worth. He was a captivating storyteller, rowdy into his old age, and a hero who foiled an armed robbery with his bare hands. After his mom died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918, his father kept his younger brother, then abandoned he and his older brother to an orphanage, where the older boy died of a disease curable today. Fostered to a farm couple who worked him like an indentured servant, Dad was viciously bullied for being an orphan, but he learned to box and conquered...