Summary

Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by enlisting with the Marines to fight in the Vietnam War. After accidentally killing one of his own men in a firefight, he suffers a bullet wound that leaves him paralyzed from the chest down. Following a nightmarish stay in a veterans' hospital, Kovac journeys down an increasingly disillusioned and fragmented path that ultimately leaves him drunk and dissolute in Mexico. He eventually turns himself around and pulls his life together, becoming an outspoken anti-war activist in the process.