Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ring.

在两轮服役后，乔在等待战后综合症治疗的过程中正常生活逐渐瓦解