A young boy escapes an abusive home life with his alcoholic mother by dreaming of being a champion boxer.

When Ferris, a teenage boy with a passion for fancy pigeons, leaves school, his father finds him a job at the local factory. Ferris goes along with his father's plan until the day the school bully he thought he'd left behind confronts him. Ferris abandons his post and the punishment his father exercises forces Ferris to finally face up to some difficult home truths.