A youthful, gay Person of color with not many choices for his future chooses to join the Marines, able to take the necessary steps to impress his alienated mother and win in a framework that would somehow throw him away. Notwithstanding, even as he fights well established bias and the exhausting thoroughness of essential preparation, he tracks down surprising kinship, strength and backing in this new local area, providing him with a hard-won feeling of having a place that shapes his personality and perpetually transforms him.
