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 adjust from a pampered, upper middle class existence to life on a working ranch enduring hot, humid Oklahoma summers. This is a story of Phillip's journey in finding new meanings to family, faith and friendship as he experiences a new world he never dreamed existed or thought he would ever become a part of as a teenager. He meets all sorts of small town personalities that expand his narrow Chicago Prep School horizons. Yet it is also a story of trying to bridge two worlds with one heart in two places. Like all young men at this age, Phillip has to make tough choices as to where his life journey will go.