13-year-old Tim is angry. Angry at his destructive alcoholic mother. Angry he doesn't have a dad. Angry at having to move into a trailer park. Angry at being forced to enter a new school 2 weeks before the start of summer vacation. Then there's the trio of bullies who latched onto the new kid immediately. Tim has nothing going for him. Until the day he makes a friend he nicknames Elvis. Tim comes of age, turning 14 in July of 1969. During the summer, Tim and Elvis bond through a series of encounters, both good and bad. Then it's time to return to school. And the bullies who have been waiting.