Scotty is a River Rats football star who fights his attraction to the same sex for his own good. Frank, Scotty's homophobe father, keeps a keen, spying eye on him and one day catches him admiring a classmate he is secretly in love with.

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Scotty is able to withstand his father’s constant badgering and abuse but watching his adored sister, Holly, take yet another beating, Scotty begins to see his favorite color, red.