Running rum over to Pelee Island on Lake Erie has been a piece of cake, a job so lucrative that men have abandoned their livelihoods. Lawrence Hooker is one of them. When he gets hurt, he orders his son Jarrod to take his spot with their boat. Jarrod, seventeen-years-old, is thrown in with rough men, many of them WW1 Vets who resent a boy working with them. Jarrod must swallow his fears and try to carve some self-respect for himself amid deadly efforts to undermine him. It