During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.
Staring down the barrel of his own revolver, divorce attorney Tom Chaney prepares to die and prove once and for all there is no god. When a determined door-to-door evangelist refuses to leave the gunman in his misery, Tom takes the young preacher hostage, and and a deadly debate over seeing and believing begins.
