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The Stuff What Actually Is

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The moving story of a young British immigrant who, drafted after Pearl Harbor and stationed in the Jim Crow South, begins to question basic assumptions about his adoptive country-as well as himself.

It's 1942. Mervyn Gower, a college dropout and wannabe boxer, works as a locker boy at the Beverly Hills YMCA but trains under "Mugsy" Levine-part-time boxing mentor and full-time local gangster-at an LA gym closer to home. Despite Gower's desire to fit in, he is forced to compete as "The Welsh K...