In this lyrical coming-of-age story, a 12-year-old Iron Range of Minnesota relishes the carefree joys of early adolescence (girls and friends) until his mom has a black eye and a busted lip. He is desperate to know what happened, but his father avoids him, Granny shushes him, and his usually resilient mother can’t get out of bed. While his family weighs the cost of keeping secrets against the price of telling the truth, he is determined to fix what happened as he tries to become a man in a world where some men cause harm.