It is the summer of 1971. America is in the throes of the Vietnam War. Great transitions are taking place not only throughout the country but also in the life of a young man named Phillip Robertson. This young man finds himself in trouble for a high school prank that is exposed to the authorities. He is expelled from a private prep school and has to accept a new beginning from his comfortable environs in the tony suburb of Chicago known as Barrington Heights. He is sent to live with a Great Aunt and Great Uncle outside a small town called Haskell, Oklahoma, in rural Oklahoma. He must learn to...