After over 30 years of administration as one of the Naval force's top pilots, Pete "Nonconformist" Mitchell is where he should be, pushing the envelope as a bold aircraft tester and evading the progression in rank that would ground him. Preparing a unit of graduates for an extraordinary task, Nonconformist should stand up to the phantoms of his past and his most profound feelings of trepidation, coming full circle in a mission that requests a definitive penance from the people who decide to fly it.
