This true story starts off in the summer of 2005, after Jared graduates high school. His summer is filled with debauchery, as he slowly slips into alcoholism, with only one thing to save him; his cousin Luke and an offer to join the few and the proud with him. But to Jared's dismay, he gets sent to the Special Training Company, where he sits in limbo for a month. There, he finds friendship and while sifting through all the suffering, suicides, and physical abuse, he finds redemption in the unlikeliest of places.