Travis Collins is a troubled teen. Abandoned by his mother and ignored by his father, he looks to his peers for attention and acceptance. Dared by his friends, the fourteen-year-old commits a minor crime that lands him in front of a juvenile court judge. At his own father's suggestion, the judge agrees to send Travis to serve a summer's worth of probation on his uncle's farm in the Ozarks. Both his father and the judge believe that a summer of exposure...