When he won an admission spot to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, JAKE HUARD thought all his dreams had come true - but his battle to become a man is only just beginning. Now, uncertain if a kid from a poor blue collar family can fit into the Academy's pressure-cooker atmosphere, and barely making the grade as a Freshman "plebe"? Jake enters the notoriously fierce Navy boxing competition. Everything he has ever hoped for stands in the balance: the chance to make his father proud, to stand up for his fellow plebes, and most of all, to forge a different future.