Together, the friends experience the currents of those turbulent times, and the wild, joyful energy of winning through confrontation and humor. The friends who make up his close-knit clique are: Art Honneyman (Michael Sheen), a student wheel chair user with cerebral palsy who uses his rapier wit to deflect the prejudice that greets his disturbing appearance Mike Stoltz (Yul Vazquez), a fellow veteran with a lot of rage and nowhere to put it and then there is Christine (Melissa George), the passionate libertine who strokes Richard's ego and initiates him into the world of free love. When he tries to help his friends, vets like himself and others with disabilities, to get work in an environment that treats them with pity at best and disdain as a matter of course, he realizes that he can make a difference.
Richard discovers that his disability and the struggle to transcend it is a defining moment in his fight for what he believes in. During combat, the young recruit loses his hearing to a bomb blast, and has to deal with this newfound disability on his return to civilian life in Oregon. Richard's immediate reaction is to enlist in the army for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Padrow shatters his dream when he rejects him.
Ben Padrow (Hector Elizondo), the coach of the winningest team in the history of the College Bowl. Rising up from a childhood in a dysfunctional family, armed with a talent for public speaking and a winning personality, the young man makes his way to a Northwestern college, confident that he will ace his try-out for his idol Dr. Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston) begins his life as a fighter, and his life's work becomes a process of fighting for the rights of others.
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