在这部America Brown片中,里基从小在西德州长大，那里的人们疯狂热爱橄榄球，与其说它是一个游戏，不如说它是一种信仰。里基拥有很强的运动天赋，希望能像哥哥丹尼尔一样成为橄榄球明星。然而他很讨厌那位控制欲极强的教练，同在学校里过的也并不开心。后来，里基前往纽约城，见到了曾经的橄榄球传奇人物约翰，后者如今已转行成了一名牧师。里基在约翰的帮助下，在纽约城开始了新的生活，这里的繁华景象，显然比家乡更让人心动，然而他能忘记自己曾经对橄榄球的热爱吗？
Ricky Brown (Ryan Kwanten) is a high school youth in Texas who knows nothing about the outside world for his was raised his entire life to follow the West Texas tradition of playing football on the gridiron. Ricky desperately tries to find a direction with his life as well as try to shake off the troubled memory of his older brother's recent death in order to avoid the pressure of him to play as his school's top star. Fleeing from the pressures of his small town as well as his mother (Karen Black), Ricky travels to New York City where he shacks up with his former mentor John Cross (Hill Harper), who is now a Catholic priest of a small church. Ricky also meets Vera (Natasha Lyonne) a free-spirited young woman who works as a diner waitress who he hopes to help him find direction. At the same time, Ricky also becomes acquainted with Rosie (Élodie Bouchez) a young Frenchwoman who has a "special relationship" with John that may have lasting consequences for John and Rosie.
