Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.

　　影片讲述了一位母亲和两个儿子在日本度假的故事。他们的小儿子差点淹死在湖里，事故发生后不久，父母意识到他们的儿子出了问题。