A Soldier's Son

In 1968, Mike Kelly's chopper is shot down over the jungles of Vietnam. The crew is dead. Most of his team is dead and the enemy is near. Today it is 2004, and Mike is a successful author who writes for the daily newspaper. He lives in a big house on the lake with his wife, Claire, college aged daughter, Madie and 18 year old son, Mick. Not all is well in the Kelly home. Mike is haunted by Vietnam. He fights hard to control his memories. With the beginning of the Iraq war, Mike's symptoms of PTSD are tearing at the family. Claire is threatening to leave unless he receives treatment for PTSD and takes medication to calm him. Madie feels Mike doesn't love or understand her and Mick is sick of him trying to control his life. When Mick and his best friend Griff join the marine corps and are sent to Iraq, Mike implodes. He travels to Iraq as an embedded reporter in a desperate attempt to save his son.