Think Big, Dream Bigger, Live Larger
At least, that's how Fergus would like to act. Instead, he exists in a world of the cool and the lame. Haves and have-nots. Winners and losers. In other words, high school. Everyone and everything fights to make Fergus smaller and he fears if he doesn't start stretching now, he'll shrink into himself forever. Just like his father has. Full of fear and potential in equal measure, Fergus just needs a push.
That push comes from an unlikely direction: an old, handmade book of simple cardboard and notebook paper titled the Final Opus. This homemade book was written by Fergus's namesake and his father's high school best friend. Part philosophy and survival guide, and part self-help book, The Final Opus begins to lead Fergus into a larger world.
When Fergus tries out for cross country, he not only makes the team, but also discovers a smoldering core of fierce competitiveness he didn't know he had. When he joins an art class, he falls a little in love and learns to create comforting shades of gray rather than living in the harsh black and white his world forced on him. Fergus begins to see that the world can be what he makes of it rather than allowing the world to mold him.
Not content with his own voyage of self, Fergus decides to rekindle the friendship between his father and the author of the Final Opus. If Fergus can save his father from the fate of humdrum existence, then nothing can stop either of them. And all they have to do is follow the plan laid out thirty years ago in the High School Playbook.