When eighteen-year old Leon Ellis loses his mother in a violent shoot out, his estranged alcoholic father, Bruce Ellis, returns to reclaim his house and his family. When Bruce’s tendencies toward mental and physical control emerge, Leon challenges his father’s role as a man of the house in a battle that goes to the death. His father murdered by his own hand, Leon recognizes in himself the very demon he despised in Bruce. Desperate, he flees the law, fueled by the recklessness of adolescence, destined for redemption of adulthood in this powerful drama about a family’s chaotic dance between tenderness and terror.